Quack

Quackify your terminal with 13 lines of code!

Overview

This is a short Python program that randomly generates a duck image.

TLDR

One can replicate the process in a few steps

1. Create a new project directory and add a quack.py program
2. Run pip3 install requests Pillow pyinstaller
3. Open quack.py and add

from PIL import Image
import requests

4. Send a GET request to get a random URL by adding

r = requests.get("https://random-d.uk/api/random")
r_json = r.json()
quack = r_json["url"]

5. Get the raw duck image data with another GET request (this time, passing stream=True)

r2 = requests.get(quack, stream=True)
r2_raw = r2.raw

6. Show the image using PIL

im = Image.open(r2_raw)
im.show()

7. Run pyinstaller --onefile quack.py

8. Remove the build directory, move the executable out of dist, remove quack.spec and dist

9. Add the final executable to PATH.

10. You can now type quack into the command line and get a duck image