This application is currently only meant to be run in development mode of django using python manage.py runserver
It is configured to use a SQLite backend so no additional drivers are needed for test it out.
To setup an environment suitable for running the app you will need to get an API key from giphy. Visit https://developers.giphy.com/ for details.
Next you will need python 3.7 Older versions may work but this has only been tested on 3.7 With python3.7 installed setup a virtualenv
mkdir $HOME/venvs
cd $HOME/venvs
virtualenv lolsearch
source lolsearch/bin/activate
Next you need to check out the code from github
git clone https://github.com/michaelrice/lolsearch.git
cd lolsearch
Next install the required pip packages
pip install -r requirements.txt
This should pull in Django, giphy_client, django-taggit, and PyYaml
Next you need to do some basic Django tasks to prep the app
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py test
This will setup the SQLite database and run the application tests
Next create a superuser for the app.
python manage.py createsuperuser
Follow prompts to complete user creation.
Next add your API key to the settings.yaml file. Replace YOUR_GIPHY_API_KEY with your actual Giphy API key.
Quotes are not needed around the API key.
Now lolsearch is ready to be started
python manage.py runserver
Open a web browser and visit: http://127.0.0.1:8000/