Instapy: Add a GUI for the setup of the quickstart file

[timgrossmann]

Would be nice if you could setup the wanted configuration through a simple GUI instead of writing text into a textile.

• [x] build a basic GUI
• [x] for the beginning add some of the features of InstaPy to the GUI
• [x] create a "quickstart.py" file out of the given params of the GUI

[komad1na]

I am on it :+1: :)

[littleswany]

https://github.com/Nemixalone/GUI-tool-for-InstaPy-script

@timgrossmann or @Nemixalone Looks like this issue is sorted so can be closed?

[timgrossmann]

@littleswany Problem is, that GUI is only for windows users 😉
Would be awesome if someone could build like a web GUI or something platform independent

[littleswany]

@timgrossmann With you on that, on the other repo I commented saying because I am on OSX I couldn't test.

I will look into doing something like a web GUI, would it downloading a .py file be something that could work, if so I can do it with relative ease.

[komad1na]

Or I could (try*) to switch to QT (C++) instead of C#.

*try - cause never done that in C++ but why not try it right, it's all about learning :)

Or web GUI however i'll try to contribute.

[timgrossmann]

@Nemixalone Do whatever you can!
It'll definitely will be useful!

[komad1na]

I will do my best.

[sdiepend]

@timgrossmann I'm trying to build a web gui using flask(I want to do more than just generate a quickstart.py file), but currently running into trouble. I import the InstaPy in a view class but when trying to instantiate an InstaPy object it says

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './logs/logFile.txt'

Which is normal because relative from my view class there indeed isn't an ./logs/logFile.txt.

So I'm thinking that logging should move outside the repo to an appropriate system location. It would also probably be better to use the Logger module from the standard python library.

For persistent data in the JSON files, maybe something like discussed here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011337/relative-file-paths-in-python-packages
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30660003/unable-to-import-text-file-with-python-module

I can try and have look at using Logger when I have time.

[timgrossmann]

@sdiepend Sounds great!

Yes, I think that's an important advancement of the script to improve the logging here...
Sorry for the problems.