Setup instructions

1. Run python3 -m venv flask
2. Run . flask/bin/activate to activate the virtual environment
3. Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install all the required libraries
4. Run ./application.py

Running Locally

1. Go to the graph api explorer https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
2. Get personal user access token
3. Go to shell that you will be running the application on
4. Create environment variable export FB_API_KEY="<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>". To check if environ variable created successfully, printenv
5. Run ./application.py

Calling endpoints

To call endpoints execute curl -X GET http://localhost:5000 and append the endpoint. e.g. curl -X GET "http://localhost:5000/company/company_name?start_time=2015-10-01T08:45:10.295Z&end_time=2015-10-01T08:45:10.295Z"

Adding new libraries

• When you add new libraries, make sure to update requirements.txt. You can do this by doing pip freeze > requirements.txt.

Testing

running python3 big_test_file.py will run a test suite that will generate std output and html files.