Installation

Starting on localhost

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/dudarev/photoplanet.git
cd photoplanet

You may also just take one of the latest tags from Github.

Create virtualenv and install dependencies. For instance with virtualenvwrapper:

mkvirtualenv photoplanet
pip install -r requirements/local.txt

Check that tests pass (this also creates custom headline and analytics files, see section below):

make test

Run the commands necessary for creating of the database (see Makefile for more details). As of version 0.1 the command creates SQLite database:

make syncdb

Launch instance of development server with:

make runserver

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the running site.

Create an app at Instagram developers page. Specify the following parameters there: WEBSITE URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and REDIRECT URI: http://127.0.0.1:8000/complete/instagram/.

Copy Instagram settings file and updated variables with what you have obtain from Instagram:

cp photoplanet/photoplanet/settings/instagram.sample.py photoplanet/photoplanet/settings/instagram.py

At the moment there is a utility view that loads recent photos from Instagram: http://127.0.0.1:8000/load_photos/. The photos may also be loaded with custom management command:

make load_photos

Custom headline and analytics

If you’d like to use a custom headline in the template you need to add file templates/photoplanet/custom_headline.html and specify CUSTOM_HEADLINE = True in you settings.

To include Google Analytics add templates/photoplanet/analytics.html and specify INCLUDE_ANALYTICS = True.

Loading photos with cron

Adjust necessary paths

* * * * * cd /path/to/manage.py/ && /where/your/envs/photoplanet/bin/python2.7 /path/to/manage.py/manage.py load_photos --settings=photoplanet.settings.correct > /tmp/cronlog.txt 2>&1