Flask image grabber 🌍🔍

Flask image grabberis a modern and lightweight Flask application that leverages the ipapi API to retrieve geolocation information based on the user's IP address. It also serves an image file specified in the URL.

Prerequisites 📋

Before running Flask image grabber, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• Python 3.x installed 🐍
• Flask library installed (pip install flask) 🌐
• Requests library installed (pip install requests) 📦

Setup ⚙️

To set up Flask image grabber, follow these steps:

1. Sign up for a free API key from ipapi.com if you don't have one already. 🔑
2. Replace the API_KEY variable in the code with your actual API key. 🔒
3. Make sure the image file (image.png) you want to serve is in the same directory as the Flask application file. 🖼️
4. Provide appropriate permissions to the info.txt file so that the Flask application can write to it. 📝

Usage 🚀

To use Flask image grabber, follow these steps:

1. Start the Flask application by running the following command:

   python app.py
   

2. Access the Flask application in your web browser or via curl/wget commands with the following URL pattern:

   http://localhost:5000/<image_name>
   

   Replace <image_name> with the name of the image file you want to serve. For example:

   http://localhost:5000/image.png
   

3. The Flask application will retrieve the geolocation information for the user's IP address using the ipapi API and save it to the info.txt file.

4. The Flask application will then serve the image file to the user. 🖼️

Note: If you access the Flask application locally using 127.0.0.1 as the IP address, it will display a message indicating that it's for testing purposes only. To get accurate geolocation information, upload the Flask application to a hosting environment. 🌐

License 📜

Flask image grabberis open source and available under the MIT License. 📃