This is the new variant of the narc.ro website. It is written in Python, using Flask and SQLAlchemy.

As with the previous version (which was written in PHP with PDO/SQLite), it is intended to be as small as possible, with an emphasis on code readability at the cost of flexibility (if the trade-off is necessary).

It is also somewhat of a Flask learner's project -- there are almost certainly going to be things I will do that would be easier using more advanced techniques and I may upgrade to those advanced techniques as I tinker with it. You are advised to be aware of this fact if you intend to reuse the code.

You are fully encouraged to consider this work Public Domain, or otherwise under the least strict licensing terms available in your legal area. Do what you want with it, I'm just writing the thing.

py.narc.ro requires a working Python environment with the following pypy packages installed:

• flask
• flask-mail
• flask-misaka
• flask-sqlalchemy
• flask-browserid

Note that flask-browserid has been modified to use Flask's normal URL generation mechanism (url_for) to create URLs in its internal template, which itself has changed to be exposed as a regular template. These changes are available on Github, but will probably not be pull-requested to the upstream extension until the template generation can be made more efficient (and that's not one of my priorities).

Given that, setting up the environment for py.narc.ro should be as simple as:

[user@host ~]$ git clone https://github.com/narc0tiq/flask-browserid.git --branch use-url_for
[user@host ~]$ sudo pip install flask flask-mail flask-misaka flask-sqlalchemy git+file://flask-browserid/

Messing around with virtualenv is left as an exercise to the reader, but rest assured it has been tested and works just fine.

Before you can do much with a fresh new copy of py.narc.ro, you need to have it create its database. The simplest way to do this is, while in the py.narc.ro directory:

$ python
>>> from application import app, db
>>> with app.test_request_context():
...   db.create_all()
...
>>> exit()

This should create all of the tables and allow the application to run successfully (albeit with no content whatsoever). From here, you'll probably want to add a config.py with your email set as the webmaster address:

$ echo "WEBMASTER_EMAIL = 'you@example.org'" >> config.py

You may also want to look at the interesting settings in application/config.py, and override anything you don't particularly like (don't edit the default config, add overridden values to config.py instead). As an example, here's what I'm using on one of my dev environments:

(venv)[narc@somewhere ~/src/py.narc.ro]% cat config.py
DEBUG_INTERACTIVE = True
LISTEN_INTERFACE = '0.0.0.0'

If you have python, flask and sqlalchemy installed and available (virtualenv is recommended, but not required), it should be as simple as running python -m application.

Note that, on the narc.ro website, the code is currently being run by Apache2 with mod_wsgi. A .wsgi file is included as a demonstration of a working setup.