https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats

This is the source code of a simple website for showing various cat pictures/videos people have posted on reddit and which members have upvoted
https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats

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This is the source code of a simple website for showing various cat pictures/videos people have posted on reddit and which members have upvoted

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats
• Owner: lrmn7
• Created: 2023-08-31T07:49:04.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-31T07:49:50.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T22:38:02.290Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: cat, cats, random-cat
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://lrmn.is-a.dev/randomcats/
• Size: 1.14 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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This is the source code of a simple [website](https://lrmn.is-a.dev/randomcats) for showing various cat pictures/videos people have posted on reddit and which members have upvoted. How it works is that a python script ([gen.py](https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats/blob/main/gen.py)) scrapes various cat posts in [these](https://github.com/msr8/cats/blob/main/subreddits.md) cat subreddits, and stores all the data in a JSON file called [files.json](https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats/blob/main/docs/files.json). This contains information about the post ID, link to the post, number of upvotes, username of OP, etc. Then in [/random](lrmn.is-a.dev/randomcats/random), [script.js](https://github.com/lrmn7/randomcats/blob/main/docs/random/script.json) chooses a random image/video from the scraped data and displays it on the page. The various endpoints available are:




## /

Homepage. Contains an inroduction to the site as well as links to other resources/webpages

## /random

The main highlight of the site, shows a random cat image/video upon visiting/reloading the page

## /stats

Contains various statistics about the scraped data (such as distribution of upvotes and domains) in the form of interactive graphs

## /files.json

Contains all the scraped data in a human readable JSON format

## /files.min.json

Contains the scraped data in a minified way, is almost 4x smaller than files.json