aliayar / 160chars

A rough twitter implementation on Flask

160chars

160chars is a basic Twitter implementation, more like a blog with 160 characters limitation per post.

Limitations:

• No check for brute-force login attemps.
• No account activation system, users can register and then login immediately.
• No check for repeated forgot password requests. This can be used as a way to SPAM users.
• Probably many more that I am not aware of.

Stack

Python, Flask, HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a bit of jQuery have been used. For front-end, I have included Bootstrap-Flask for Bootstrap 4 instead of Flask-Bootstrap which is based on Bootstrap 3.

Database

An SQLite database is configured for development purposes. As SQLAlchemy and Alembic are included via Flask-SQLALchemy and Flask-Migrate, using any other database supported by SQLAlchemy can be used immediately with small configuration edits.

Other Required Software

ElasticSearch: For search, ElasticSearch is implemented but as search code is generic, any other system can implemented instead of ElasticSearch.

Redis: Redis is used for task queues. Currently, only implementation is backup of user posts.

Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/aliayar/160chars

After creating a virtual environment, install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the application:

flask run

Disclaimer

This attempt is nowhere near finished. It can only be used as a base and several shortcomings should be fixed before production. However if it should be used, I would recommend hide the auth pages due to spammable nature in the current implementation.