The MEIRLBOT is a set of Java Spring Boot applications for the purpose of creating and displaying memes. The main reason for creating this project was to learn new technologies and build resumes. There are three different applications and a MongoDB database. The MemeAPI is a REST API for interacting with the MongoDB Database Collection. The MemeProcessor project is the application which processes memes from Reddit's me_irl subreddit for relevent current memes and attempts to create a similar meme. There are several parts to the project which involve a Reddit API, a Flickr API for downloading source images, and a Tesseract OCR program for OCR of the image captions. The third and final part of the MEIRLBOT is the MemeExchange which is a React JS webapp for displaying the created memes from the MemeProcessor.
This is a Spring Boot application which is easily developed and deployed from the Spring Tool Suite program. Also the Tesseract OCR program needs to be installed, and a MongoDB database. The MongoDB Database can be started by using mongod and the other components can be run by mvn spring-boot:run or by using the STS IDE.
To compile the Spring Boot applications into a executable jar file use the command mvn package from the application directory. To then run the application use java -jar target/JARFILENAME. For the MemeProcessor or the MemeExchange to work the MemeAPI needs to be running. For the MemeAPI to work the MongoDB database must be running.
- Fork it!
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b my-new-feature - Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin my-new-feature - Submit a pull request and put Tyler Moon as the reviewer :D
- Start of MEIRLBOT with a Python script for downloading images from Reddit
- Got the initial MemeExchange built with Meteor.js
- Added a MongoDB Database and RabbitMQ Messaging server
- Finished the Python prototype
- Re-wrote MEIRLBOT in Java using the Spring Boot platform
Tyler Moon
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