For a school project I need to make a simple python program. I need ideas so if you have something that you want made for you then please post it here. I’ll release it here under a gnu general public license once I’ve finished.
You can build an RSS scraper that posts news from multiple sources to Lemmy. RSS is very well documented and you can use pythorhead to interact with Lemmy.
Alternately, you can scrape data from a currency exchange site and live display their data on your GUI. Trying to scrape sites teaches you a lot of things about how to approach it. You can make use of beautifulsoup library to sort out from the whole site.
Give me lotto numbers.
Edit: to be more specific USA mega millions lotto numbers.
five random numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one random number from 1 to 24 (the Mega Ball).
>>> import random >>> random.sample(range(1,71),5),random.choice(range(1,25)) ([43, 8, 15, 66, 28], 17)
Simple emulators (Original nintento, gameboy, space invader arcade cabinet, old teletype machines… german enigma code machine)
Software synthesizer
Sample mixer
Guitar tuner
Sheet music to tab converter
Wordle clone
Stock tracker
zip/unzip tool
mp3 codec encoder / decoder
ebook converter
CLI ebook reader
A posix compliant shell
Ascii video player (play youtube videos on the console using ascii)
Spotify client that runs in the terminal
QR code generator
CLI FlashcardsThe asci video player would be cool. I don’t need to go to my web browser to watch youtube, I could do it in the terminal! terminal spotify client also seams cool, although I wouldn’t know where to start with that. I could just make an mp3 player, it would align with my idea of privacy. What do you mean by ebook converter? does it convert physical book pages to ebooks? i’m slightly confused.
Also I love the cli based ideas we need more cli apps.
there’s a pretty wild range there from fairly easy to make in a few hours to massive community effort over several decades
You should provide some examples of what you would consider simple.
Heres an idea… I made it in PHP and bash, cause I’m terrible at programming. But it works well and would be a neat school project I reckon.
Our VOIP provider provides webhooks. I have one setup so when someone rings, the webhook calls a script on my web server that looks up a phone book and then uses a Discord webhook to push what is essentially a more advanced caller ID to a private discord channel - their number, their name, company they represent, and some notes like “has a son Chris who plays football, married to Jill” or whatever.
The “phonebook” lookup first tries a remote shared phonebook (which is given in a Yealink format), and after parsing that data it saves a copy of that remote phonebook before moving on to the rest of the script. If it cant call the remote phonebook for whatever reason, it falls back on using the last saved copy locally.
The benefit of all this is that on my desktop I always know who’s calling and a bit of a blurb about them before I pick up the phone, and if I’m out of the office I know who’s trying to ring. Since I have VOIP on my phone as an extension I can technically have someone transfer the office to my mobile too so having the discord notification is handy when a transfer appears.
The members of the private discord channel determines who sees the notifications, and having a single phonebook to update for everyone in the office means it’s always (… usually) kept up to date.
This is excellent. Thank you for the idea. I’ll definitely implement something like this now.
AI debate program. Make calls to 2 different AIs where you have them debate some topic that is put in by the user. See how far off topic they can get…
