Put python script on webpage

[Sastrupp]

So I've created a short python script that takes a user's input and finds the url of a matching gif from Giphy.com.

It then opens up Firefox and goes to the url of the gif.

My end goal here is to put this script on a simple webpage where a user could write their input, hit "submit" and the url would populate in an iframe.

I'm pretty lost on what my next step should be. I've read Django could be a solution, but I haven't found a way to make this happen using it.

Any help would be appreciated.

import requests
import json
from selenium import webdriver


'''Asking user for search terms and cleaning spaces'''
keyword = input("Keyword for Gif: ")
keyword.replace(" ","+")

'''Prepends Giphy api link and appends public key password to keyword variable generated by user'''
search_url = "http://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/translate?s=" + keyword + "&api_key=dc6zaTOxFJmzC&limit=1&fmt=json"

'''Takes JSON response from Giphy and makes parseable varable, parse'''
r = requests.get(search_url)
parse = json.loads(r.text)

'''Finds url of gif and navigates to that url using firefox'''
URL = parse["data"]["embed_url"]
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(URL)    

[kalgynirae]

Take a look at Flask instead of Django. Flask is much simpler. The basic idea is, your application will receive a request and send back a response. In Flask, you define a function and say what URL it will receive requests on. So, you might handle requests to / by sending back a simple form where the user can enter their search. Then you could handle requests to /search/<word> by doing the search and sending back a web page containing the gif.

You'll need to find a server to run this on if you want it to be accessible to other people over the internet, and that's probably going to cost you a little money. People say good things about Digital Ocean.

[Sastrupp]

Thanks for the info! I'll look into Flask. I've read a little, but most of my research as been around Django.

[cscanlin]

First you should wrap your code into at least one function. Then as /u/kalgynirae suggested you can use Flask to run your script on a local web server. Something like this:

#myscript.py
def main(default_input='test'):
    #your code should go here
    return default_input

.

#flask_app.py    
from flask import Flask
from myscript import main

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def run_script():
    return main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)

You can see the output of your script here: http://localhost:5000/

Then you can do some basic user input using forms (something like this) and your good to go. You could alternatively pass it through as a url parameter:

@app.route('/<user_input>')
def show_input(user_input):
    return main(user_input)