ByteNet

A social Networking Site

ByteNet is a social networking site built with django and bootstrap.

Project is live at : https://bytenet.pythonanywhere.com/

Functionalities

Things you can do on ByteNet:-

1. Create account

2. Make friends by sending and accepting friend requests

3. Share images, music, youtube videos and much more with your friends

4. Like and Dislike the posts on your feed

5. Tag friends and be part of the conversation

6. Find users on the website

7. See what everyone is up to in your feed

8. Catch on with latest trends,news and memes.

and also, posts, here, are called "bytes" : )

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change. Feel free to open issues with appropriate tags.

Running the Django app

1. Create a virtualenv for running the app.
   • Run python3 -m venv myvenv inside bytenet folder.
   • Run source myvenv/bin/activate to start virtual environment.
   • Run pip3 install requirements.txt.
2. Migrate the models.
   • Run python3 manage.py makemigrations.
   • Run python3 manage.py migrate.
3. Run the server.
   • Run python3 manage.py runserver And that's it.

secrets.py and credentials

• To run some functions you will need some credentials.
• Create a python file called secrets.py in constants directory.

imgur credentials

• Head over to https://apidocs.imgur.com/ and get the necessary credentials and add them to constants/secrets.py.
• You will need these 2 credentials: IMGUR_CLIENT_ID and IMGUR_CLIENT_SECRET.

link_preview credentials

• Head over to https://www.linkpreview.net/ and get the necessary credentials and add them to constants/secrets.py.
• You will need just one credentials: LINK_PREVIEW_KEY.

reddit credentials

• For running god_script.py you will have to get reddit credentials.
• Head over to https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ and get these credentials REDDIT_CLIENT_ID, REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET, REDDIT_USERNAME, REDDIT_PASSWORD, REDDIT_APP_NAME and store it in constants/secrets.py.