IPPG

I was an absolute beginner. I kept looking things up on Stack Overflow and trying to make sense of the examples. Somehow I learned to find an element by its class name before I even knew what a class meant in HTML.

After some trial and error, the Selenium script got the picture. Great, it worked! What if I could make an Android app for this?

I didn’t even know I needed a backend. I went back to Stack Overflow to figure out how apps worked and how my Android app could use the scraper. That was how I found out what a backend was and that I needed one here.

What could I use? I already had Python. Flask was recommended as a simple place to start, so I went with it. I was just hacking my way through the problem, looking up whatever I needed next.

Then I had to learn how to turn my script into a REST API and how Android could call it and show the picture. Getting the script to work was one thing. Getting it to work from my phone was a whole new set of questions.