Movie Night Watchlist

This is a flask web application that helps you manage your movie watchlist and randomly picks what to watch next.

Tech Stack

backend - Flask

API - OMDB

frontend - just html css

screenshots

why I made this?

I made this for ysws called slushies in hackclub, this was a lowkey cool project, it was fun to make

note

This project is not scalable, It has ratelimits enforced tho

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kusuta012/mvwl.git
cd mvwl

2. create a virtual environment

pip install uv
uv venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

uv pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables

export OMDB_API_KEY='your_api_key_here'
export SECRET_KEY='your_secret_key_here'

5. Get your api key from https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx

6. Run app.py

python app.py

Yayy!!, ENjoy