NewsBee

NewsBee is a country-based news sharing website written in Python backed by Django and the Mediastack API for retrieving news. Users register with their country and login. Home page is divided into 3 sections

1. News, where users sees news from their own country
2. BeeNews, where users see news shared by other users
3. My Collection, where users see the news they shared

Sign up and get a Mediastack API key here

1. Install MariaDB and the required development libraries for it

   // Development libraries
   sudo apt install libmariadb-dev libmariadb-dev-compat libmariadbclient-dev
   sudo apt install python3-dev
   

2. Create a database called news_bee in MariaDB

3. In the NewsBee directory, make a secrets.py file and write down the secret variables required

   DJANGO_SECRET_KEY = '<any random string>'
   DATABASE_PASSWORD = '<your mariadb database password>'
   MEDIASTACK_KEY = '<your api key>'
   

   Then in the settings.py file, search for DATABASES and change the username there to the username of your database (usually root)

4. Make a virtual environment of python and install dependencies

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   
   

5. Migrate the changes to your database.

   python3 manage.py makemigrations
   python3 manage.py migrate 
   

6. Run the server with python3 manage.py runserver