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andyalam/django_instagram

Photo sharing social media site built with Python/Django. Based on Instagram's design.

Django IG

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Photo sharing social media site built with Python/Django. Based on Instagram's design. The server also uses Django Channels to establish a websocket connection to the client for messages and soon, notifications.
Channels requires a redis server to be running, more info can be found about Django Channels here

Installation

Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Ensure that Redis is installed and running on port 6379 (default).

Run these two commands in two separate terminals

python3 manage.py runserver --noworker
python3 manage.py runworker

Languages

Python44.2%CSS26.0%HTML23.5%JavaScript6.3%

Contributors

Created July 24, 2016
Updated October 29, 2025