About our project: InstiZeit is a Social Networking Website for
IITI Community
Key Features: Real Time Messaging, Connect with Friends using
Auto-Recommendation, Add Posts with Image, Video and PDF
Support.
Project Structure:
Front-end: HTML, CSS, JS
Backend: Python-Flask
Database: MySQL. SQLAlchemy is used to connect Database
with python-flask and execute queries.
Hosting: AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon RDS remote
Database
API: Google O-Auth API for Sign-In and User Verification
Google Drive API for uploading and accessing media files
Landing Page
Posts
Live Messaging
Add Friends
Profile page
Friend Requests
Hosted website: http://instimeet-env.eba-f3my7frm.ap-south-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/
(Hosted website is down currently as we are changing hosting platform)
Running on localhost:
• Create Virtual Environment and install required libraries
using:
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• Send request for .env file containing API keys
• To run application: Use python application.py
Developed in collaboration with Nishchay Shroff, Mir Razee Mohideen and Nischit Hosamani