Popular Front Archive is a webapp developed with Django, it uses a packaged called Instaloader to download Instagram posts and stories of Popular Front. The app is hosted on Render and uses PostgreSQL as a database. It uses Cron-Job to run the get_post view every 5 minutes.
In theory, this webapp could be used with any Instagram account, but it was developed with Popular Front in mind.
To install all requirements, install Poetry and run poetry install in the root directory of the project. Then, you can use Poetry to run the app with poetry run python manage.py runserver.
In other side, please create a .env file in the root directory of the project with the following variables:
SECRET_KEY: The secret key of the Django app.
Remember that DEBUG comes set to True by default, so you should change it to False in production.
index: The main page of the webapp, it shows the latest posts and stories.get_post: Downloads the latest posts from Instagram and saves them to the database. It's important to note that this view needs a GET request with the key of the API, otherwise it will return a 404 error. Here you can change the Instagram account that the app will download from.
Post: Stores the data of a post. The things that saves are:code: a CharField with a maximum length of 100 characters, which will store a unique code for the post.content: a TextField that will store the main content of the post.image: a TextField that will store the URL of an image associated with the post.created_at: a DateTimeField that will store the date and time when the post was created. This field will be automatically set to the - current date and time when a new post is created.published_at: a DateTimeField that will store the date and time when the post was published. This field can be set to null=True to allow for posts that have not yet been published.
head.html: The base template of the webapp, it contains the navbar and the header.index.html: The main page of the webapp, it shows the latest posts and stories.about.html: The about page of the webapp, it shows information about the project.
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.