🎬 Fraudflix

Fraudflix is a Netflix-inspired web application built for educational purposes. While it doesn’t support video streaming due to copyright constraints, users can still enjoy the experience of browsing and searching for content, managing personal accounts, and navigating a genre-based homepage. Admin accounts provide additional functionality to manage users and content.

🧑‍💻 Contributors

• Khang Bui
• Casey Martin
• Aaron Howe

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🚀 Features

• User account creation and login
• Admin panel for content and user management
• Search functionality by title
• Genre-based homepage content display
• Integration with The Movie Database (TMDB) API

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📦 Project Setup

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/fraudflix.git
cd fraudflix

2. Install Dependencies

Backend:

cd backend
npm install

Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install

🗄️ Database

Install Postgres & Create a Server

1. Windows

• Download Postgres from here.

• The executable application will have steps for creating a server.

• Then in your command prompt:

  psql
  CREATE DATABASE <name>;
  CREATE USER <user> WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD <password>;
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE <name> TO <name>;

2. Unix

• In your system terminal:

  sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
  sudo systemctl start postgresql
  sudo systemctl enable postgresql
  sudo -i -u postgres
  psql
  CREATE DATABASE <name>;
  CREATE USER <user> WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD <password>;
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE <name> TO <name>;
  \q

🛠️ Environment Variables

Fraudflix requires a .env files to be properly configured.

Root .env

Create a .env file in the root directory OF THE BACKEND FOLDER:

PORT=5000

# Database
DB_NAME=<database_name>
DB_USER=<user>
DB_PASSWORD=<password>
DB_HOST=localhost

# Authentication Token
JWT_SECRET=<key>

Enter your own credentials for each DB_ field when creating your Postgres server.

🎞️ TMDb Integration & Database Setup

Note: Since we already included Movies500.json in the project directory, you do not need to follow these steps. This is purely for references.

Fraudflix uses the TMDb API to fetch popular movie and genre data. These are converted into JSON and then used to populate our PostgreSQL database.

Steps to Fetch and Convert TMDb Data:

1. Navigate to the backend/services/ directory:

`cd backend/services`

2. Make sure your .env file in this directory contains your TMDb API key as the name TMDB_API_KEY.

3. Run the following scripts to fetch and convert the data:

node movieService.mjs 
node genreService.mjs

These scripts will generate or update the file movies500.json, which contains the movie data.

Database Auto-Population

When the app runs, the backend reads from movies500.json to populate the PostgreSQL database automatically with the fetched movie and genre data.

▶️ Running the App

Start the Backend

cd backend
npm run dev

Start the Frontend

cd frontend
npm run dev

The app should now be running on http://localhost:5173.

📝 License

This project is for educational use only. No copyright infringement is intended.