wiki-to-ppt

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  Home page

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  PowerPoint with information from Wikipedia search

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  Generated PowerPoint presentation with filled in information

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  Download page

Inspiration

Creating a powerpoint should be simple. We wanted to create a boilerplate for powerpoint generation using Wikipedia content.

What it does

User types in the name of the article, chooses some options for design, and then clicks download to get their generated powerpoint!

How we built it

Front-end: EJS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Back-end: Node.js, Express, EJS, PptxGenJS (PowerPoint generation library), WTF-Wikipedia (Wikipedia scraping library)

Challenges we ran into

Integrating each of our roles (one on front-end, one on PPT library, one for Wiki) into the main product. Getting something that worked locally to work on our deployed Node instance on Heroku

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully passing in the values obtained from the Wikipedia scraper to the PPT generator

What we learned

Everything. Front-end and back-end development. What HTTP requests are, how to create a Node app, working with external libraries.

What's next for wiki-to-ppt

Be able to input any type of article, not just from Wikipedia, most likely incorporating Natural Language Processing to discern important information. More design options for the PowerPoint like fonts/colors/themes and animations.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE MENTORS WHO HELPED <3

Built With

• css
• ejs
• express.js
• html
• javascript
• node.js
• pug