Simple Backend for http://dafuq.is

Dafuq is a simple python script which calls urbandictionary API for a given word and returns the response. The server is written in python, using bottle and requests.

Requirements

• bottle (Supplied with code, no need to install)
• requests v2.1.14
• inotify-tools (Install to OS)

How to get up and running ?

• $ pip install -r requirements.txt
• $ python ./src/index.py

For Wordnik

If you want to use wordnik source, you need to create an API key. After you have an API key do.

• $ cp .env.example .env
• Modify .env so that you paste your environment variable
• $ source .env
• $ DAFUQ_IS_WORDNIK_API_KEY=${DAFUQ_IS_WORDNIK_API_KEY} python ./src/index.py

Note: The app will run on localhost on port 8080, we then setup our nginx proxy to forward requests from our web front to the app.