get-color-palettes-py

A Python3 script to retrieve color palettes using the colourlovers web API.

Description

A script to retrieve the current most popular color palettes from www.colourlovers.com that have 5 colors.

Detailed description of the Colour Lovers web API can be found here:

• Colour Lovers web API

This script was inspired by the work of Matt DesLauriers:

• nice-color-palettes (written in JavaScript)

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Colourlovers-API-wrapper
  • install with pip install colourlovers

Installing

• [Optional] Create a new Python virtual environment and activate it
• Install colourlovers
  • install with pip install colourlovers

Executing program

• Update palette_target_count in main.py and set the number of palette you want to retrieve from Colour Lovers web API
• run the script from the command line: python main.py
  • Note: there is a 5 second sleep per request so we don't spam the colourlovers server.
• the script will save into the palettes folder

Authors

• Victor Stepanov
  • @cgpython
  • Checkout my Python tutorials on YouTube

Version History

• 0.01
  • Initial Release

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Also license info can be found here: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

Acknowledgments

This project is standing on the shoulders of these projects:

• nice-color-palettes (written in JavaScript)
• Colourlovers-API-wrapper