Heroku Flask API

Deploy an API built with Flask on Heroku.

Data

Data consists of images from the Steam store (~30k games) downloaded on January 9, 2021.

Usage

To run locally:

python run.py

To deploy:

heroku login
heroku create
git push heroku main

Web App

The web app can be accessed at this URL:

https://damp-brushlands-51855.herokuapp.com/

To ask for results about Cyberpunk 2077, you have to append the appID (1091500) to the /render/ endpoint:

https://damp-brushlands-51855.herokuapp.com/render/1091500/

Or you can try your luck with a random game. Caveat: some Steam games can be offensive!

https://damp-brushlands-51855.herokuapp.com/render/

Number of matches

To tweak the number of matches, for instance to 5 instead of the default (11): render/1091500/5

Direct links to the Steam store

To have direct links to the Steam store: store/1091500/

Mirror and flip

CLIP seems be attentive to texts present on images. To try to mitigate this effect, the query image can be:

• mirrored (i.e. horizontally),
• flipped (i.e. vertically).

To mirror the query image: render_x/ or render/?mirror=1

To flip the query image: render_y/ or render/?flip=1

To mirror and flip the query image: render_xy/ or render/?mirror=1&flip=1

References

• steam-CLIP: retrieve games with similar banners, using OpenAI's CLIP (resolution 224),
• heroku-flask-api: serve the matching results through an API built with Flask on Heroku,
• heroku-clip: deploy an app built with Streamlit on Heroku.