Eidolon

Eidolon is a study app that scrapes random questions from stackoverlow, saves them to a mongoDB database and then displays them on a frontend/webpage - all at the click of one button!

Comment

Inspiration

A friend asked me to build an app that will study for them while they did something else. So I tried to build something that can get you some resources before you begin studying.

What it does

Eidolon scrapes random questions from StackOverflow, saves them to a MongoDB database, and then displays it on a website.

How I built it

Built with Pycharm IDE. Pycharm helped with managing virtual environments.

Challenges I ran into

  • Connecting to MongoDB Atlas
  • Generating Dynamic HTML content
  • Connect to MongoBD from Flask

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learned many new tools

What I learned

  • Full-stack web development with python
  • Flask
  • MongoDB
  • Scrapy

I learned so many skills in under 24 hours! For the record, I've never built a dynamic web app before!

What's next for Eidolon

  • Build a content aggregator on top of Eidolon
  • Add new features like a login system.
Share this project:

Updates