Justin Y. Detector

Server software which searches YouTube comments for Justin Y. and stores the result for cached access.

Installation

Clone the repository and run

npm install

Afterwards create a file called .env where you need to define the following environment variables:

NODE_ENV
Set this to "production".
SQLITE_PATH
Path where you want the sqlite database to be placed
API_KEY
API key from the google API console
PORT
Port to bind the webserver to
ADDRESS
[optional] Address to bind the webserver to (Default: "", which means all addresses)
LOG
[optional] Set the loglevel (See the loglevel docs for allowed values) (Default: "error")
RECHECK_DELAY
[optional] Number of seconds after which a video is queried again if no comment could be found the last time. (Default: 604800)
TRACKING_CODE_FILE
[optional] Specify the path of a file containing some additional text/code to be included in the header. The path can either be absolute, or relative to the views/ directory.
ALLOW_DB_DOWNLOAD [optional] Allow downloading the entire database on the /api/entire-db endpoint.

After you have set your environment variables install the knex cli:

npm i -g knex

and run

knex migrate:latest --env production

to initialize the database.

If you have installed everything, simply run

NODE_ENV="production" node ./

to start the server.

You can simply pull this repo to get all the updated features. Afterwards you need to run

knex migrate:latest --env production

again, to update the database with new/changed tables.