Thomas-Basham / trout-tracker-wa-backend

Trout Tracker WA is a comprehensive web application designed to provide updated information about trout stocking in Washington state. This repository contains all the essential backend components of the project, including database management, a Flask API and a web scraper.

Trout Tracker WA Backend

Authors: Thomas Basham

Version: 4.1.1

trout-tracker-wa-backend.vercel.app

Front End Code

Introduction

Trout Tracker WA is a comprehensive web application designed to provide updated information about trout stocking in Washington state. This repository contains all the essential backend components of the project, including database management, a Flask API and a web scraper.

Getting Started

• With WebScraper
• With API

Features

• Flask backend for server and API management.
• Data scraping tool for fetching real-time data.
• Comprehensive API for data retrieval.

Configuration

• Set environment variables in a .env file as required.
• Configure the database settings in the respective configuration files.

Running the Application

Start the Flask server:

python main.py

Contributions

• Get started Contributing

Tech Used

• Flask

• Beautiful Soup (Data scraped from WDFW Stock Report)

• SQLAlchemy

• PostgreSQL Database

• GitHub Cron Job (To schedule webscraping daily)

• Google Geolocation API (To get lat/lon of lakes)

• Docker

Resources

WDFW Stock Report

Flask

Beautiful Soup

SQLAlchemy

Docker and NGINX

Google Geolocator API

Contact

• Developer: Thomas Basham
• Email: [e-mail]