The goal of Meme Generator is to build a "meme generator" application, to generate memes dynamically that includes an image with a quote. It handles the quotes from different file formats.
Meme Generator has the following functionalities:
- Interacts with a variety of filetypes
- Loads quotes from a variety of filetypes(CSVs, PDF, Word Documents)
- Loads, manipulates, and saves images
- Has two user input interface- web service and command-line tool
The program can run in two ways. Before we run the program we need to create a virtual environment.
- Navigate the root directory and create a virtual environment.
$ python3 -m venv my_meme_env - Source activate the virtual environment
$ source my_meme_env/bin/activate - Install all the dependencies from the requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
The meme.py has codes to run the application from the command line. It takes three optional arguments:
- --path: Path to the image file
- --body: Quote body to add to the image
- --author: Quote author to add to the image
- To make your own custom meme add image to
src/_data/DogQuotesfolder and add quotes onsrc/_data/DogQuoteson any four file format PDF, csv, docx, txt - Add
staticfolder and atmpfolder while using the application to save the generated meme
- From root directory src run flask with the command
$python app.py - "Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)" will be displayed on the terminal, use any browser to open the address.
- Use the Random button to get meme automatically or Use the Creator button to make a meme on your own. Fill the form with the image URL, quote, and author.
- Project has 2 modules
- QuoteEngine -Loads quotes from variety of filetypes(CSVs, PDF, Word Documents, Textfile )
- MemeGenerator-Has files to handel image captioning.
Each class and function has a docstring with details on arguments and return.