SecureQRParse

• Python Script and Web Application to extract urls and defang them from QR Codes.

1. Installation of Scripts and Dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/RyanNgCT/SecureQRParse
$ cd SecureQRParse
$ pip install -r requirements.txt # optionally create virtual env

2. Usage

• Command-Line Tool Interface (can use --file or --directory to extract urls from a given file/directory).

$ cd App
$ python parse.py [--file/-f <FILE>] [--directory/-d <DIR>] [-h/--help]

• Flask Web App

# install dependencies first
$ cd App && flask run

Note: You may need to install Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 here, if you get a pyzbar dll fail to load /file not found issue

To modify the css stylings:

a) install Node.js on your platform: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

b) run the npx script

$ cd App/FrontEnd
$ npm run create-css

Possible To-dos

• allow for recursive search (depth > 1) when looking at files in subdirectories/subfolders, while using the --directory flag.
• convert and host python script as an interactive Flask Web-App.
• security mechanisms for Flask Web-App.

Others

• Reference to set-up Tailwind CSS on Flask: https://www.codewithharry.com/blogpost/using-tailwind-with-flask/