Fantastic QR Code Generator

A minimalistic web application to generate qrcodes built using python

Set-Up ⚒️

• Ensure you have the latest stable version of Python in your system

• Open your terminal / command prompt.

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/smaranjitghose/fantasticqrcode
  

• Change the directory to the cloned project

  cd fantasticqrcode
  

• Install the dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Load the application

  streamlit run Home.py
  

• If the app does not load by itself in your default browser, open a browser of your choice and navigate to http://localhost:8501

• To stop the application, press CTRL + C in your terminal

Demo 👇

Click Here 🔗

Future Work 🏗️

• Generate Batch QR Codes using csv file of URLs
• Make an exectuable file
• Dockerize the application

Note ✏️

• For Streamlit Sharing, mentioning versions of the modules in requirements throws error at times

Deployment Options 🥊

• Streamlit Cloud

• HuggingFace Spaces

• Fly

• Railway

• Render

• Cyclic

• Heroku

• Digital Ocean

• Google App Engine

• Amazon EC2 Instance

• Azure App

(Using Google Colab/Kaggle as temporary MVP server)

• pyngrok

  • Step 1: Install pyngrok in Google Colab

    ! pip install pyngrok
    

  • Step 2: Sign-up in ngrok and get Authentication Token

  • Step 3: Authenticate

       from pyngrok import ngrok
       ngrok.set_auth_token("xxx")

  • Step 4: Load the Streamlit App at port 8051, create a tunnel for it and reveal the public URL for the tunnel

       !nohup streamlit run app.py --server.port 8051 &
       url = ngrok.connect(8051).public_url
       print(url)

  • Step 5: Share URL with client

• localtunnel

  • Step 1: Install localtunnel

    npm install -g localtunnel
    

  • Step 2

    streamlit run Home.py & npx localtunnel --port 8501
    

  • Step 3: Share URL with client

Acknowledgements 🙏

• Animations: LottieFiles