Hackpy

Django based project similar to hacker news to understand and implement django framework.

Main python Libraries Used:

• Rest Framework as API framework
• Elasticsearch to implement search
• Memcached for caching
• Beautifulsoup4 for parsing html while crawling data
• Celery to run crawling tasks parallelly
• Jinja2 as template language

Installation

To get this project running on your own system, refer to the steps as following:

1. Clone the repository

	git clone https://github.com/dhruv12399/Hackpy.git

2. Set up mySQL database

	apt-get install mysql-server

3. Create a new database (from the mysqlclient)

	create database hackpydb

4. Run migrations

	python manage.py migrate

5. Start the celery worker and crawl data

	celery -A hackpy worker
	python crawl.py

6. Install and configure elasticsearch

	systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
	python manage.py add_data

7. Runserver and you are good to go! 😄

	python manage.py runserver