It's a web based application that:

• generates n number of users and fills posts and likes for them
• provides the REST API with the possibility of authorization (login/register), new post creation, posts liking functionality

This application is built using Django and Django REST framework and JWT.

Social Network uses python language version 3 and above. You can install it using this article. Also you should have installed pip and virtualenv in order to deploy application locally.

Please follow these steps if you want to run the local copy of the app:

I. Download archive with project and unzip it II. Move into unzipped folder using console like this:

$ cd social_network

III. Create virtual environment to isolate application specific dependencies. Please keep in mind that this instruction will not work for windows user. If you are using windows try to find another way to install virtual environment with python 3 and above.

$ virtualenv venv -p /usr/bin/python3

IV. Enable virtual environment

$ source venv/bin/activate

V. Install application dependencies in the isolated environment

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

VI. Create necessarry tables in the database:

$ python manage.py migrate

VII. Populate database with automatically generated users, posts and likes:

$ python manage.py populate

VIII. Register on Hunter and obtain its API key We'll use this service to verify potential user email address.
When you'll register your self there, you have to get API key and place it as the value for variable HUNTER_API in the env file. You can find it using this path:

core/.env  

IX. Run application's local server:

$ python manage.py runserver

If you are done with installation process, you can visit http://localhost:8000/ url and see Social Network working. On the front page you should see table with posts data.

API for Social Network is divided by access level.

/api/auth/register/
/api/auth/token/ (Login purpose)
/api/posts/(GET)

To authorize yourself you have to use access token from /api/auth/token/ endpoint
/api/users/
/api/posts/(POST)
/api/impact/post/(POST, endpoint to like/unlike posts)