https://github.com/healeycodes/if-sad-send-cat

🐱 A program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.
https://github.com/healeycodes/if-sad-send-cat

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🐱 A program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/healeycodes/if-sad-send-cat
• Owner: healeycodes
• Created: 2022-02-17T22:10:06.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-19T12:43:09.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T19:09:24.437Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: cat-api, cats, emotion-recognition
• Language: HTML
• Homepage:
• Size: 28.1 MB
• Stars: 191
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# If Sad Send Cat

> My blog post: [When I'm Sad My Computer Sends Me Cats](https://healeycodes.com/when-im-sad-my-computer-sends-me-a-cat)

If you're sad in front of your computer, this project will send a random cat to your phone. It was an evening project to glue together a few APIs.

Hopefully this prototype can be used as inspiration for your fun ideas!

## How?

- It runs locally and captures your webcam through a browser

- Emotions are tracked via [vladmandic/human](https://github.com/vladmandic/human)

- Cats are provided by The Cat API. Notifications via [Pushover](https://pushover.net/)

## Setup/Run

- Create an `.env` file with `PUSHOVER_API_KEY` and `PUSHOVER_USER_KEY` 

- `pip install -r requirements`

- `python server.py`

- Go to `http://localhost:8080`

- Be sad

- Receive cat

## Debug Log

![Side by side comparison of the debug log when I'm happy vs. when I'm sad.](https://github.com/healeycodes/if-sad-send-cat/blob/main/web/happysad.png)

## Pushover Notification

![A notification on my phone of "Marcus", a cat, who "needs my attention".](https://github.com/healeycodes/if-sad-send-cat/blob/main/web/catalert2.png)