Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

Re:Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Wri... by ctdonath on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:56PM (#5333853)

I saw this, thought "yeah right, gonna be more of a pain than depicted, why bother", downloaded & installed it anyway because I've got a stupid fondness for the idea (if not the awkward reality) of QR codes ... and not 2 hours later was using it for real. Dang handy, nicely implemented.

Thanks!

Only quibble is: how big a code can this viably render? tried something not particularly large for fun and just got a big "PNG" icon instead.

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Re:Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Wri... by zacharyvoase on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:09PM (#5333954)

Thanks a lot! It's feedback like this that keeps me releasing this stuff for free :P

In terms of size: I think QR codes go up to 1024 bytes; anything larger and perhaps the Google Chart Image API would return an error, so you'd be quicklooking an empty file with a '.png' suffix, hence the generic PNG icon.

The next evolution of this script is to store larger text strings in a pastebin and then just display a QR code for the URL to that.

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