OTP with meme image
Leisure project. A REST API that sends a one-time authentication code (a.k.a OTP) to email, but the code is in the text of a meme image.
Usage
Setup:
- Create a new
.env
file - Add your
EMAIL_SENDER
andEMAIL_PASSWORD
in your.env
file - Optional:
- By default I use gmail for email host, you can configure your
HOST
in the.env
file. - You can also add
PORT
in.env
- By default I use gmail for email host, you can configure your
- Create or use an API test app like Postman
Usage:
-
Run
main.py
-
Send a request to http://localhost:5000/send-otp with your
email
query as email recipient. E.g: http://localhost:5000/send-otp?email=your@email.com. -
If successful then a response appears like this:
{ "email": { "body": "Here's your email confirmation", "receiver": "your.receiver@email.com", "sender": "your.sender@email.com", "subject": "confirm your account" }, "message": "Success sending email", "status": 200 }
-
Now if you look at the recipient's email, it will be the image that was sent:
Why this meme?
The meme used in this project is Shannon Smiling or better known as The Guy Smiling And Wearing A Suit, which is often paired with a negative text or "My Reaction For That Information".
the reason why I chose this meme was inspired by a meme where a man screenshot the OTP sender's chat and he replied by sending a photo of himself posing cool. suddenly it gave me the idea to make an OTP system by sending pictures of people posing cool with the OTP code text.
Idk why I chose the photo of Shannon smiling, it's because I think with the meme photo of Shannon in addition to making a sense of humor but also as a sign of welcome and strengthens security.