Use-case:

For a movie rating app, create a django rest api using django rest framework. The app needs to have the following capabilities:

• users should be able to sign up and login, use token authentication.
• to list movies.
• logged in users can save movies to a watchlist or mark them watched.
• logged in users can view a list of movies in their watchlist or watched list.
• take care of permissions - users cannot delete a movie, view other users’ watched list etc

Build the corresponding rest APIs.

To populate the movies in your database, create a scraper to scrape IMDb’s top list (https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/). The scrapper should follow each movie’s url and extract details from the movie’s page. The details you want to save are up to you. The more the better. This scraper should ideally be triggered by an endpoint in your django api and accept any similar url e.g. https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies. Already existing movies should be only updated. Not replaced/duplicated.

System Requirements

python3.7 or higher

Development setup (for Ubuntu):

Open Terminal :

Ctrl + Alt + T

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Clone Project to your directory

git clone https://github.com/achugh95/movie-review.git

cd movie-review

Check python version on your development system

python --version or python3 --version

Setup environment:

Create an environment

python3 -m venv <path>

Activate virtual environment:

source <path_to_virtual_environment>/bin/activate

Install requirements. Use the package manager(pip) to install the dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Run Project

Open terminal and run the following commands:

python3 manage.py runserver