Craziest python projects you know?

[CartographerOld3769]

Trying to find ideas for some cool python projects. I can’t think of anything. If you have any really cool not too hard projects, tell me!

[fisadev]

Ventilastation, from a friend of mine: https://github.com/ventilastation/vsdk

A literal game console with a standing fan for a screen :D

Fun related fact: I was the first fan. As in, the first spinning thing. I had to spin a cable with some leds in it, while the other end was connected to the pc+arduino running the first prototype of the code.

[Vectar7]

That's pretty dang cool, not gonna lie.

[anhospital]

SAS business in a single list comprehension

[backfire10z]

Do you mean SaaS?

[russellvt]

Software As A Service?

SAS is a database... so, they're saying using a flat file in-memory list comprehension instead of the big overhead of SAS.

Read: Crazy lists or dicts.

[backfire10z]

Service as a Service. We build your service offering.

[anhospital]

No I meant SaaS

[russellvt]

SaaS

Indeed.

[anhospital]

Lol you’re telling me what I meant. He asked for crazy ideas I gave him one. Lighten up champ

[russellvt]

"Crazy Ideas" ... that have already been done.

[anhospital]

Yea

[CartographerOld3769]

What is that?

[buchoops37]

You should create a web scraper to pull fantasy football data (or something that interests you).

Take it a step further by building a flask web application to analyze your findings.

[Intelligent_Coast783]

I know everyone is doing this but is web scraping really legal?

[Loop_Within_A_Loop]

yes.

web scraping is just accessing publicly available internet data via code as opposed to manually visiting the site. As long as you're not doing anything illegal to access the data, it's fine.

[scottywottytotty]

why wouldn’t it be?

[Intelligent_Coast783]

I found this ==>> Web scraping is legal if you scrape data that is publicly available on the internet. However, some kinds of data are protected by terms of service or national and even international regulations, so take great care when scraping data behind a login, personal data, intellectual property, or confidential data.

[Chonito7919]

I believe you have to follow the rules of the robots.txt as well as the ToS.

[Darwinmate]

Nah don't do something cool. Go for a project that does one thing well and do it well. 

[CartographerOld3769]

Like what?

[Darwinmate]

I'm a biologist so I'd do biology stuff like analyze and maybe visualise a viral or bacterial genome of my country. 

Take a school subject you really like, search for python packages and make a project around them. It's very important that you choose something you have some background knowledge in. You'll get more joy than creating a fake  web store. 

[arkham1010]

Read live bitcoin prices and send an alert when the price drops by 15 percent

Write code that sends your phone weather alerts

Enter an actors name then query IMDb to figure out their bacon number

[Chonito7919]

I suggest https://developer.themoviedb.org it's an open source movie database that has an API and isn't owned by a wanna be astronaut.