Matinee All Day (Backend)

Matinee All Day is a movie recommendation app created by Jodi Denney and Amel Ntamark as their capstone project for Ada Developer's Academy. This repo contains the backend logic for the app.

[View the frontend repo here].(https://github.com/J-J-D/Capstone)

Setup

1. Git clone to your machine
2. run python3 -m venv venv to setup virtual environment
3. run source venv/bin/activate to activate virtual environment
4. run pip install -r requirements.txt to install requirements
5. In the project root, create a .env file and add the value TMDB_API_KEY = {your_tmbd_api_key here}, using your own API key from https://www.themoviedb.org/
6. Replicate the PostgreSQL database on your local machine.

Getting a random movie

1. Start your flask server
2. Make a POST request to /sessions to save preferences.
3. Make a PUT request to /sessions/{session_id} to store movie results in the database.
4. Make a GET request to /sessions/{session_id} to receive a single instance of a movie recommendation.

More features

• Users can be "logged in" by making a POST request to /users/login and providing a username in the JSON request body.

• Logged in users can add movies to their seen lists by making a PATCH request to /users/{user_id}/{tmdb_movie_id}

• Session info can be deleted from the database by making a DELETE request to /sessions/{session_id}

• Movie data can be deleted from the database by making a DELETE request to /sessions/movies