moviegeek

The MovieGEEKs is a movie site implemented to accompany my book "Practical Recommender Systems". It is used in the book to show how recommender systems work, and how you can implement them.

The book is still being written, and so this is still under construction.

installation guide:

This site is using the MovieTweetings dataset, and uses themoviedb.org to get poster images. A big thanks to both of them for all their work. Please go and visit them.

The dataset is used in the populate_moviegeek script which downloads it and imports the data into the database configured in Django.

Project Setup

The following is expecting you to have python 3.x installed on your machine. I recommend looking that the Hitchhikers guide to Python if you haven't.

For windows users it's a good idea to install the Anaconda package. Anaconda is the leading open data science platform powered by Python (according to their homepage) Anaconda

Download code

> git clone https://github.com/practical-recommender-systems/moviegeek.git

Create a virtual environment for the project

Look at the following guide for more details guide

> cd moviegeek
> virtualenv prs
> source prs/bin/activate

if you are running Anaconda you can also use conda virtual environment instead.

Get the required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create the dbs.

If you have a database running on your machine I would encourage you to connect it, by updating the settings in prs_project/settings.py. To set up another database is described in the Django docs here

> python manage.py makemigrations
> python manage.py migrate

Populate the db by running the following script.

(WARNING: this might take some time.) (WARNING: If you are using python >3.6 on a Mac then you need to run "/Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command". More details here)

> python populate_moviegeek.py

Create a themoviedb.org id

• go to https://www.themoviedb.org/account/signup and create an api_key
• create a file in the root of the directory called ".prs" and add { "themoviedb_apikey": <INSERT YOUR APIKEY HERE>}. (remember to remove the "<" and ">")

Start the web server

To start the development server run:

> python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000

Running the server like this, will make the website available http://127.0.0.1:8000 other applications also use this port so you might need to try out 8001 instead.

Closing down.

• when you are finished running the project you can exit the virtual env:

> deactivate