Planty takes the mystery out of keeping plants alive! Intended for both the novice and the seasoned professional, this app provides concise, user-friendly guidance on how to take care of houseplants. Users can search for plants by name or plant profile, add new plants to the database, edit current plants, and schedule watering reminders for plants🍃 they own.
Frontend: HTML5, Sass, AngularJS💕, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap
Backend: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Scrapy
APIs: Flickr, Twilio
Search for plants by name, water, sun, temperature, or humidity needs. User account registration not required.
Register or login to edit a plant.
Add and remove plants from your account.
Schedule watering💦 reminders for your plants.
- PostgreSQL
- Python 2.7
- Flickr and Twilio API keys
To have this app running on your local computer, please follow the below steps:
Clone repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/agnaite/planty.git
Create a virtual environment🔮:
$ virtualenv env
Activate the virtual environment:
$ source env/bin/activate
Install dependencies🔗:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Get your own secret keys🔑 for Flickr and Twilio. Save them to a file secrets.py. Your file should look something like this:
APP_KEY = 'xyz'
FLICKR_API_KEY = 'abc'
FLICKR_API_SECRET = 'abc'
TWILIO_SID = 'abc'
TWILIO_AUTH = 'abc'
Create database 'plants'.
$ createdb plants
Create your database tables and seed🌱 example data.
$ python model.py
Run the app from the command line.
$ python server.py
If you want to use SQLAlchemy to query the database, run in interactive mode
$ python -i model.py
- Add ability for users to communicate
- Add rating system for plants
- Show recently added plants
- Show popular plants by geographic location
- Add custom plant fields
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Agne Klimaite
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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