Reference Generator

Introduction

This python automation program creates a harvard referance for the user by having the user input the header, year of publish and URL of the web page. All references are stored in one location within a text file for easy retrievel.

Prerequisites

You can follow these instructions to setup the developer environment:

• Install BeautifulSoup
• Install Requests

pip install beautifulsoup4

pip install requests

Run Python Application

Referance.py

Docker

Download Docker Desktop for Mac or Windows. This solution uses Python3 and Python libraries.

Build Command

Build the image, this may take some time. After your image is built, you can view your image in the Images tab in Docker Desktop.

docker build -t reference-program-dockerisation .

The -t flag tags your image with a name, reference-program-dockerisation in this case. And the . lets Docker know where it can find the Dockerfile.

Run Command

To run the program type this command:

docker run -i -t reference-program-dockerisation

Run Unit Test

python -m unittest Test_Referance