OMDB

An app that retrieves and stores information about movies

Features

• Use the OMDb API to fetch information about movies
• Increase efficiency by limiting the number of times the API is queried
• Use Signals, Celery and Redis to improve the overall scalability & performance
• Include a small demo module to connect to the GitHub API to😀!

Installation

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

Execution

To use this app you need an API key obtained by free at https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx. Once you have a key, it’s passed in the URL as the apikey parameter. Note: Free keys are limited to 1,000 requests per day.

For example, this is how you use your key by loading it from an environment variable

import os
import requests
params = {"apikey": os.environ["DJANGO_OMDB_KEY"], "t": "ben stiller"}
resp = requests.get("https://www.omdbapi.com/", params=params)
# URL called: https://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=<key>&t=ben+stiller
print(resp.json())

running django

python manage.py runserver

also run Celery in another terminal

celery -A course4_proj worker -l DEBUG