#Sparta

• A sports article API server in Django

Crawls news sites and exposes news article data using Django Rest Framework. Protects resources using token based stateless auth

#Tools used:

• Django rest framework

  • Expose api endpoints. Makes writing APIs lot easier. Reduces a lot of code

• Django redis cache

  • Used here as a persistent cache. Storing news articles that are new and user has not liked yet

• Django rest framework JWT

  • Using this for stateless auth. The backend does not have to store any sessions to keep the user logged in.

#Caching strategy

The endpoints expose only what is present in redis cache, avoiding the need to touch the DB ever. Redis is updated with 'fresh' articles when the crawler is updating the databse. Any article that is liked/unliked by the user is removed from the redis cache.

#Setup

Install virtualenvwrapper

Install redis

$git clone git@github.com:dbajpeyi/sparta-server.git .
`mkvirtualenv sparta`
$cd sparta-server && pip install -r requirements.txt
$cd project
$python manage.py migrate
$python manage.py runserver

Server at https://localhost:8000

#Running the load-script

From the project directory where manage.py is:

$python manage.py load_articles