ScanCycle

Inspiration

This is a sustainability app meant to promote recycling and heallthy eating. The project is deployed on recycle-rezt2460.pythonanywhere.com and uses a clean UI and a fast barcode scanner to return information to you about food products in your home or at the store.

What it does

This app scans a barcode on a food item and gives you info about the item like if its recyclable or healthy

How we built it

I built it by using QuaggaJS to scan the barcode, sending that to my flask API, my flask API gathered data from the two database API's, then the data was sent back to JavaScript and displayed on screen

Challenges we ran into

A challenge we ran into was that OpenFoodFactsAPI didn't have enough data in it so I had to use another API too

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of the clean UI and scanning

What we learned

I learned how to use quaggaJS and make a flask API

What's next for ScanCycle

Linking an SQL database for scan history

Built With

• css
• flask
• html
• javascript
• openfoodfactsapi
• quaggajs
• searchupcapi