Movie Database Website 🎥🎥🎥

This project demonstrates the basic capabilities of Django framework and Django REST Framework for creating a movie database website.

Description

Web application with minimal frontend where users can view and edit a list of movies, actors and directors.

Each movie have the following details:

• Title
• Release Date
• List of Directors
• List of Actors

Database population is done through the API from https://www.omdbapi.com/

CRUD operations for Movie, Actor, Director.

Live-demo is available on Render:

https://movie-database-y78h.onrender.com

API Endpoints🪝

• /api/movies/ (GET, POST)
• /api/movies/<id>/ (GET, PUT, DELETE)
• /api/directors/ (GET, POST)
• /api/directors/<id>/ (GET, PUT, DELETE)
• /api/actors/ (GET, POST)
• /api/actors/<id>/ (GET, PUT, DELETE)

Features ⭐

• CRUD operations for movies
• CRUD operations for actors
• CRUD operations for directors
• Pagination for list views
• Filters for movies, actors, directors (via django_filters) for both frontend and API
• API endpoints for CRUD operations with movies, actors, directors

Technologies Used 🧑‍💻

• Django Framework
• Django REST Framework
• Django Filters
• SQLite (for development)
• PostgreSQL (for production)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/movie-database.git
   cd movie-database

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Apply migrations:

   python manage.py migrate

4. Acquire API key for OMBD API:
   https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
   And then put it into .env file (see .env-sample for reference)

5. Load data form OMDB API using management command:

   python manage.py migrate import_movies 80000 81000

   Note: 80000 and 81000 are range of movies' IMDB IDs, explanation from IMDB below:

   tt0050083 is the unique identifier for the 
   movie "12 Angry Men (1957)", where tt signifies 
   that it's a title entity and 0050083 uniquely 
   indicates "12 Angry Men (1957)"

6. Run the development server:

    python manage.py runserver

7. Access the website at http://localhost:8000/