API_Imogi

Common code for the Relational Databases and Full Stack Fundamentals courses

Step 1

Setting Up

Follow the instructions on installing Git, VirtualBox and Vagrant on your respective system.Some helpful links are listed below

• Virtual Box
• Vagrant

From the terminal run the following commands

• Download the file using git clone http://github.com/<username>/API_Imogi_Site imogi
• This will give you a directory named imogi that is a clone of your remote API_Imogi_Site repository.
• Then cd imogi to enter into the directory just created
• Then run vangrant up
• When vagrant up is ran, it installs all the libraries needed for the application to run

Once it is up and running, type vagrant ssh. This will log your terminal into the virtual machine, and you'll get a Linux shell prompt. When you want to log out, type exit at the shell prompt. To turn the virtual machine off (without deleting anything), type vagrant halt. If you do this, you'll need to run vagrant up again before you can log into it.

Running the App

Navigate to the imogi directory on your system and issue the following command

• Type python views.py and follow the instruction that is displayed on the command shell
• Type ctlr + c to end the session

Step 2 - Getting Familiar with project

Now that you have your server running, you can familiarize yourself with the project.

You're going to use:

• Flask for our web framework
• Requests to grab data from Tenor's GIF API

Learn the basics of Flask and Requests. Both are easy to learn and these resources listed below are good resources and references for getting started:

• Flask Megatutorial Chaper 1-3 only
• Routing with Flask
• Requests Quickstart

Before moving on, make sure to create a developer account and request an API key. In views.py replace "Your_key_here" with your actual API key in the code.