Small Django project that allows the user to pull events from Eventbrite and store them on a local database. It also allows to update existing events, as well as search/filter these events via a RESTful API. The API is implemented with the Django REST framework. It's using a postgreSQL database, which is suitable for production, unlike Django's default sqlite3 database.

The project was tested locally with Python 3.7.2.

1. Make sure you have Python 3+ installed on your computer (it may or may not work with Python versions older than 3.7.2) and pip

2. Fork this repo

3. Database pre-requisites:

• make sure posgreSQL is installed on your machine Note: this project uses the psycopg2 package that supports PostgreSQL server versions from 7.4 to 11 and the PostgreSQL client library version from 9.1 (http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html#prerequisites)
• launch the posgreSQL server and create a new database for this project
• update the DATABASES settings in settings.py

4. In your terminal, go to the EnlyteEvents/ directory:

cd ~/path/to/EnlyteEvents/

5. Install the dependencies by running the command below (you might want to create a virtual environment before running it):

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Set the projects's secret key (a string containing any characters) either as an environment variable by running:

export $SECRET_KET=<my_secret_key>

or by creating a text file called 'secret_key.txt' containing the key in a directory called 'settings_var/' (located at the root of the project)

7. Apply the migrations by running:

python manage.py migrate

8. Launch the dev server (if no port number is specified, it will run on port 8000 by default)

python manage.py runserver [port_number]

9. To access the schema of the API, open a web browser and go to: 'http://localhost:8000/api/schema' (replace 8000 by the right port number if necessary)

A custom django-admin command has been implemented to populate the database with events pulled from Eventbrite.

1. Optional: in the terminal, go to the root directory of the project and set the Eventbrite API Oauth token as an environment variable by running:

export $EVENTBRITE_OAUTH_TOKEN=<token>

1. then run:

python manage.py fetchevents [--number_of_events num] [--token oauth_token_to_access_the_eventbrite_api]

If the environment variable EVENTBRITE_OAUTH_TOKEN is not set, then you need to use the optional argument --token

By default, running this command will store 500 unique events from Eventbrite in the database. The events will have the following fields:

• name
• organization
• cost: an integer that's the average of the minimum_ticket_price and the maximum_ticket_price
• start_date: the start_date of the Eventbrite event (a DateField, not a DateTimeField)
• event_original_id: a read-only field with a unique constraint; this is the Eventbrite event's id, to make sure 2 identical events can't be stored in case the fetchevents command is run several times

• add some tests

More info about the Django web framework: https://www.djangoproject.com/start/

More info about Django REST framework: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/