WILL THIS BE GOOD

willthisbegood.website is a singe-page website that tells you if certain things will be good or not. All opinions are final.

This website updates daily. To complain about the website, email minervaheavyindustries@gmail.com. To complain about the opinions, tweet @badpun

Installation

willthisbegood runs on Flask, python3, and a Gmail account. process_new_things.py looks at the gmail account, and grabs all emails sent by the whitelisted email. These are then stored in a sqlite3 database, which wtbg.py uses to populate the page. To actually install:

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/stephenwashington/willthisbegood

2. Set up a virtual environment

   cd willthisbegood
   virtualenv venv
   . venv/bin/activate

3. Install the necessary dependencies via pip3

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Set the environmental variables

   export FLASK_APP="wtbg.py"
   export EMAIL_ADDR="email.to.get.things.from@example.com"
   export EMAIL_PASS="yourp4ssword"
   export WTBG_EMAIL="whtielisted.email@example.com"

5. Run init_db() in wtbg.py

   >>> from wtbg.py import init_db
   >>> init_db()

6. Run the Flask app (App will be on http://127.0.0.1:5000)

   flask run