The Social Network
The package "The Social Network" is a django base backend core element for any possible social network you can think of. You can easily create clones for all popular social networks.
Installation
Minimum requierments are:
Python >= 3.9
Django >= 3.2.9
Pillow >= 8.4.0
djangorestframework >= 3.12.4
Intallation can be done by pip like
pip install the-social-network
or download manuel on Pypi.
How to use
If you not have already created a django python project, create it at first in a new directory with the command
django-admin startproject mysite
This will create a mysite directory in your current directory.
Open the mysite directory and open the settings.py. Add 'the_social_network' to INSTALLED_APPS and save the file.
Next open the urls.py and add the following lines to your urlpatterns
url(r'^authentication/', include('the_social_network.urls.authenticationUrls')),
url(r'^accounts/', include('the_social_network.urls.accountUrls')),
url(r'^search/', include('the_social_network.urls.searchUrls')),
url(r'^contents/', include('the_social_network.urls.contentUrls'))
Now everything is ready to run django with the-social-network. Create the database with
python manage.py migrate
and start the server with
python manage.py runserver
the default django information page should showup if you open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.
Request API for the URLs
In all requests (except for the request of authentication/register/ or /authentication/login/) you need to send the authentification token inside the header. For authorization use the header name "Authorization" and the value "Token "
Authentication
POST url: ".../authentication/register/"
Register a user
Requestbody:
{
"username": "username",
"password": "password",
"email": "email"
} Responsebody:
{
"token": "token"
} POST url: ".../authentication/login/"
Login a user
Requestbody:
{
"username": "username",
"password": "password"
} Responsebody:
{
"token": "token"
} POST url: ".../authentication/logout/"
Logout a user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody: None
Success: HTTP/200
GET url: ".../authentication/validate/"
Validate a token
Requestbody: None
Responsebody: None
Success: HTTP/200
Account
GET url: ".../accounts/show/<user_id>/"
Show a public user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody:
[{
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": ...,
"email": ...,
"date_joined": "..."
},
"image": "...",
"biography": "...",
"related_by": [],
"related_to": [],
"statements": []
}] GET url: ".../accounts/show/own/"
Show the own user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody:
[{
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": ...,
"email": ...,
"date_joined": "..."
},
"image": "...",
"biography": "...",
"related_by": [],
"related_to": [],
"statements": []
}] GET url: ".../accounts/show/all/"
Show all public users
Requestbody: None
Responsebody:
[{
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": ...,
"email": ...,
"date_joined": "..."
},
"image": "...",
"biography": "...",
"related_by": [],
"related_to": [],
"statements": []
},
...
] PUT url: ".../accounts/update/"
Updates the own account. Only "Biography" and "Image" are allowed to be updated.
Requestbody:
{
"biography": "...",
"file": "..."
} Responsebody: None
Success: HTTP/200
PUT url: ".../accounts/follow/<user_id>/"
Follow a user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody: None
Success: HTTP/200
PUT url: ".../accounts/unfollow/<user_id>/"
Unfollow a user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody: None
Success: HTTP/200
PUT url: ".../accounts/operation/add/statement/"
Add a statement to the own account
Requestbody:
{
"input": "<statement>"
"reactions": { "to": <reaction_to_a_statement_id>, "relation": <"attack" or "support">} <--- optional
} Responsebody:
{
"id": ...,
"author": {
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "..."
},
"image": "..."
},
"content": "...",
"tagged": [],
"mentioned": [],
"created": "...",
"relation_to_parent": ...
} Success: HTTP/200
Contents
GET url: ".../contents/statements/get/<statement_id>/"
Get a statement
Requestbody: None
Responsebody:
[
{
"id": ...,
"author": {
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "..."
},
"image": "..."
},
"content": "...",
"tagged": [],
"mentioned": [],
"created": "...",
"relation_to_parent": ...,
"reactions": []
}
] GET url: ".../contents/statements/with/hashtag/"
Get all statements with a hashtag
Requestbody: None
Queryparameters: "?q="
Responsebody:
[
{
"id": ...,
"author": {
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "..."
},
"image": "..."
},
"content": "...",
"tagged": [],
"mentioned": [],
"created": "...",
"relation_to_parent": ...,
"reactions": []
},
...
] GET url: ".../contents/statements/feed/"
Get all statements of the accounts that are followed by the user
Requestbody: None
Responsebody:
[
{
"id": ...,
"author": {
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "..."
},
"image": "..."
},
"content": "...",
"tagged": [],
"mentioned": [],
"created": "...",
"relation_to_parent": ...,
"reactions": []
},
...
] GET url: ".../contents/statements/feed/pagination"
Get statements of the accounts that are followed by the user
Requestbody: None
Queryparameters: "?page=<page_number>&size=<number_of_statements_per_page>"
Responsebody:
{
"total": ...,
"data": [
{
"id": ...,
"author": {
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "..."
},
"image": "..."
},
"content": "...",
"tagged": [],
"mentioned": [],
"created": "...",
"relation_to_parent": ...,
"reactions": []
},
...
]
} GET url: ".../contents/trending/hashtag/"
Get all trending hashtags which are most used in statements
Requestbody: None
Reponsebody: ++++++ TODO: Setting of a hashtag not clear ++++++
Search
GET url: ".../search/"
Searchs for a user or hashtag
Requestbody: None
Queryparameters: "?q=<search_query>&filter=<"user" or "hashtag">"
Responsebody:
{
"accounts": [
{
"user": {
"id": ...,
"username": "...",
},
"image": "..."
},
...
],
"hashtags": [
{
"id": ...,
"tag": "..."
},
...
]
} Core Database structure
The project requieres the base authentication database structure from django and extends it with the following tables:
the_social_network_account
with
user_id: int as primary key and foreign key to django auth_user
image: varchar(100)
biography: varchar(1000) the_social_network_statement
with
id: int as primary key
author_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_account
content: varchar(120)
created: datetime the_social_network_accounttagging
with
id: int as primary key
created: datetime
account_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_account
statement_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_statement the_social_network_hashtag
with
id: int as primary key
tag: varchar(30)
created: datetime the_social_network_hashtagtagging
with
id: int as primary key
created: datetime
hashtag_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_hashtag
statement_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_statement the_social_network_reaction
with
id: int as primary key
created: datetime
vote: small uint
child_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_statement
parent_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_statement the_social_network_relationship
with
id: int as primary key
created: datetime
from_account_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_account
to_account_id: int as foreign key to the_social_network_account