jtokarowski/music-in-context-api

contains spotify data retrieval functions and playlist suggestion algorithm

How to run this project locally

1. Clone repo, cd into the directory
2. create a virtual environment and activate it (keeps all dependencies in the virtual environment, without installing globally) python -m venv music-in-context-venv source music-in-context-venv/bin/activate
3. run pip install -r requirements.txt
4. create a spotify developer account, retrieve your client id and client secret key, store it in the following env vars SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET
5. setup MongoDBdocker container docker pull mongo:latest docker run mongo:latest
6. set the environment variable ENV to dev
7. run python app.py and you should now be able to interact with the api on localhost:7000