dy-fi/warroompy

A Python Web App for allowing users to scrape data from the internet and make charts/dashboards without being a programmer

War Room 💻 📡

Pull data from anywhere on the web and make live graphs without being a programmer. This is a proof of concept that happened to work out!

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How to use

You'll be prompted for a URL and Xpath to make a "place". These places point to one piece of data we can collect to make a time-series graph.

A collection of places makes up the dashboards that we call "Rooms", presenting them however you want, like this-

Road Map

• User Authentication

• Dashboarding

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Running Locally

Make sure you have Python 3 and MongoDB installed.

git clone https://github.com/dy-fi/war-room-py.git
cd war-room-py
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 app.py

The app should now be running on localhost:5000. Make sure MongoDB is installed and MongoDB Daemon is running.

Running Locally With Docker

docker-compose up --build

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Built With

• Flask - Web framework
• Flask SocketIO/SocketIO - Socket Connection
• MongoDb - Document Based Database
• Gunicorn - Web Server

Deployed With

Docker - Containerization and Cluster Fabrication (coming soon)

Staging - Heroku - VPS cloud hosting

Production - Coming Soon

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Author

Dylan Finn | Github | LinkedIn | Portfolio