FLC-Movie-Review-Website

 

A Hackfest Project for Movie Reviews. Using this platform ‘Bit Movies’ user can get the information about any movie. User can search for a movie and also give reviews and rating. It allows people who are new to sign up and create a new account whereas people who already have existing accounts can sign in to get the information about a movie. Ratings from various other review websites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are also available. Hence, the user can easily decide whether a movie is good or bad. User can also add the movies and web series to watchlist and watched categories. This will allow the user to search for a good movie.

1. Backend Framework: Django
2. Frontend Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap
3. APIs: OMDB, Cloudinary
4. Deployment: Railway

Installation

1. Fork and Clone

   1. Fork the Repo
   2. Clone the repo to your computer.

2. Create a Virtual Environment for the Project

   In Windows

   python -m venv env
   
   env\Scripts\activate

   In Ubuntu/MacOS

   python -m virtualenv env
   
   source env/bin/activate

   If you are giving a different name then venv, then please mention it in .gitignore file first

3. Install all the requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start a postgres database called 'bit-movies-flc' on default port (5432)

5. Create .env in project root folder and add the following

   SECRET_KEY=<django_secret_key>
   DATABASE_URL=<your_database_url>
   API_KEY=<cloudinary_api_key>
   API_SECRET=<cloudinary_api_secret>
   CLOUD_NAME=<cloudinary_cloud_name>

   • DATABASE_URL in env is in the form of postgres://user:pass@host/dbname
   • SECRET_KEY can be generated using get_random_secret_key() method

   from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
   print(get_random_secret_key())

   • Cloudinary related env vars can be accessed by signing up on Cloudinary and opening up the dashboard.

6. Make migrations

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate

7. Create a super user. In django if you want to access admin page, you need to create an account first.

   python manage.py createsuperuser
   

   Then select your username and password.

8. Run server

   python manage.py runserver

Video Description

Screenshots

• Landing Page

• Login Page

• Register Page

• Profile Page

• Edit Profile Page

• Search Results Page

• Movie Info Page

• Ratings Page

• Display Review Page

• Genre Page

Contributors

Ganesh	Sharan	Vandana	Saachi	Sanjey	Deeksha	Deepika	Pratham	Pavithra

License

Apache License 2.0