codehike's Introduction

CodeChef Virtual Contest(CVC)

- a way to replay past codechef contests.

This Web app lets you play Codechef Contests as virtual contests.
It feels just like a real contest with real contestants competing alongside with the participant who participate a virtual contest.

WebApp is hosted at - http://149.129.139.179

It will be very helpful for preparation of short contests. Few of the features are :

You can add Friends and see their separate ranklist during live virtual contest.
Several people can play virtual contest together and see each others ranking.
All COOKOFF's starting from COOK01 to recent COOK98A/B are available to play as virtual contest.
You can compare yourself with other people while virtual contest is in play.
Video Tutorial to Use WebApp : Video link (Just a short 12 min video, you can watch at 1.5x :P)

Slides for better understanding of App: Slides(We both are very poor in making slides, we apologize beforehand _/_)

Note : Judgement result takes a while to reflect in standings as Codechef restricts no. of API requests in a min.(6 calls/min), just refresh the page in a while.

Technologies used -

Flask
MongoDB
Jinja2 Template

How to Install -

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
You also need to put your client_id, client_secret, redirect_uri in app_data collection in db.
The Database server is hosted on Alibabacloud, thus requires URI, and password, which you need to set up in file db_conn.py, set DB_PASS environment variable which has passkey to your DB.
Deploy using Gunicorn using gunicorn app:app -b 127.0.0.1:5000