IAESTE Now

IAESTE Now is a website facilitating the discovery of people, events and couches in IAESTE on a geographic basis. It is built using modern web technologies, specifically:

Flask
SQLAlchemy
Google Maps APIs
jQuery

Dependencies

Make sure Python 3 is installed, and install some dependencies through the pip python package manager:

sudo pip install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-Login Flask-WTF requests twitter

Make sure you install with pip3 if Python 2 is your default version (likely).

Setup

API keys for services being scraped, in particular Facebook and Twitter, must be generated and added to a settings file called settings.json. Copy the template settings-template.json and fill in as described below.

Application Secret

Generate a long, random string, such as with the command:

python -c "import random; import string; \
print(''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for i in range(60)]))"

and save it to the secret_key entry in settings.json.

Facebook

Generate a Facebook app at https://developers.facebook.com/apps/, and add the application ID and secret to the settings.json file.

Twitter

Generate an application key at https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new, and add the application key and secret to the settings.json file.

Running the Development Server

Run the development server with:

./runserver.py

If you get the error:

/usr/bin/env: python3: No such file or directory

you probably do not have python3 installed.

At the moment, the development server is set up to generate a new database and populate it with some content when run. When the Python files are modified and saved, the server will automatically reload (and crash if there is an error).