astronomypics.net

Scrapes data from Astronomy Picture of the Day, stores it in MongoDB, and presents it in a more usable form using Backbone.js. Bottle is the Python web framework used.

Adds additional functionality such as:

• voting
• random photo
• datepicker
• quick download

Setup:

brew install pyenv
pyenv install 3.8.12
pyenv exec pip install -r requirements.txt

Running:

python main.py

Deploy:

fab deploy