BulletinBird - a small, friendly 'bird of the day' server

BulletinBird is a small app that serves up a new bird of the day every morning.

Features

BulletinBird provides a REST API for getting data about a the randomly-selected bird of the day. The data is obtained from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's taxonomy guide and includes:

• Common name
• Scientific name
• Species characteristics
  • Habitat
  • Diet
  • Nest type
  • Behavior
  • Conservation status

BulletinBird also provides static images for display on IoT-type devices. Currently, BulletinBird generates images specifically for the Pimoroni Inky Impression 4 and the AdaFruit Magtag.

The static images include:

• Scientific illustration
• Icons for species characteristics
• QR code that links to the Cornell Ornithology page for the bird of the day

Prerequisites

• Go 1.20.x
• Mage

Library Dependencies

BulletinBird uses these awesome Go libraries:

• goquery
• grab
• imaging
• gg
• gocron
• echo
• go-qrcode

Support

BulletinBird builds and runs on MacOS (tested on 13.4.1 Ventura) and Linux (tested on Raspbian Bullseye and Armbian Bullseye). It probably runs on any *nix, but has not been tested. Windows is anybody's guess.

Cloning and Compiling

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/13-bit/bulletinbird
$ cd bulletinbird

Build and run

$ mage build
$ ./build/bulletinbird

Alternatively, you can install it in $GOPATH/bin

$ mage install

Fonts

BulletinBird uses Google's Pacifico and IBM's Plex font, both of which are licensed under the Open Font License. Copies of the license are included with the fonts.