Homepage: Includes the most recent wildfire news scraped from the internet and a map of wildfire hotspots.
Watch our video demo on Devpost! 📽️
Our web app was inspired by the increasing frequency and severity of wildfires in Canada and globally. We created this app during Ignition Hacks 2023, a 36-hour hackathon, to help combat this growing disaster. 🌍🔥
Our app uses feedparser to scrape news headlines, selects those related to wildfires, and displays them on the homepage. The wildfire prediction feature uses an algorithm with real-time data from the WeatherAPI to calculate fire risk worldwide.
We built the app using Django as the back-end framework, with Python handling API requests and web scraping. The front-end was developed using HTML/CSS with Bootstrap for styling.