NOTE: While open-source, some features of this block explorer are not easily compatible with running your own version locally, and this is no longer recommended (except for expert users).

Setup Instructions

Install

OSX

Follow the instructions here to install Homebrew and then (re)install python.
If for some reason the step above does not install pip and virtualenv, follow the instructions here to get pip and then install virtualenv using pip install virtualenv.
Install the foreman gem for accessing environmental variables: $ gem install foreman
Optional (advanced features): Install the latest stable version of postgres 9. (http://postgresapp.com/)[Postgresapp for Mac] is quite easy to install.

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev ngrok-client ngrok-server

Configure

$ cd into your projects/workspaces directory and run $ git clone https://github.com/blockcypher/explorer.git. The result of $ git remote -v should look like this:
```
origin  git@github.com:blockcypher/explorer.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:blockcypher/explorer.git (push)
```
$ cd explorer/ to get to the project root direction, create a python3 virtual environment ($ virtualenv -p python3 venv) and then activate it ($ source venv/bin/activate)
Install requirements: $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt (this will take a few mins)

Create a .env file in the project root directory with the following:

DEBUG=True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True
DJ_DEFAULT_URL=postgres://postgres:YOURLOCALPASSWORDHERE@localhost:5432/explorer_local
SECRET_KEY=RANDOMLY_GENERATED_50CHAR_STRING
SITE_DOMAIN=pick_this_yourself.ngrok.com
BLOCKCYPHER_API_KEY=PUT_YOURS_HERE

(these are for your local machine, production is a little different as settings.py is smartly designed to default to production settings)

Create a database on your local machine with whatever name you like. I recommend explorer_local so it's clear you're working on a local copy. You'll be using this above in DJ_DEFAULT_URL. I've assumed your user is postgres, but you could have a different user.
Create DB tables from code (replace foreman with heroku for running on production, which should basically never happen again):

# Create tables and run migrations:
$ foreman run python3 manage.py migrate

Run the Site Locally

Run the webserver locally:

$ foreman run python3 manage.py runserver

Now visit: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Submit Your First Pull Request

First, pull the latest version of the code from github:

$ git pull origin master

Make a new branch:

$ git checkout -b my_branch

Make some trivial change and commit it:

$ git commit -am 'my changes'

Push it up to github:

$ git push origin my_branch

You can submit your pull request here: https://github.com/blockcypher/explorer

Congrats, you're all setup!

Post Setup Instructions

Build Awesome Features

You're on your own for that.

Git Foo

Compare your local version of site to what's on github:

$ git log origin/master..HEAD --oneline

blockcypher / explorer

readme