A webapp using which the user can search for videos on YouTube. It provided features to sort the videos by name or by date.
- The backend server is made using Flask and the frontend is made using Bootstrap, jQuery and Javascript.
- When the user searches for a query, an AJAX POST request is made to the Flask API.
- The Flask API uses the Google Python API Client Library to search YouTube and returns an array of JSON Objects.
- This array is then parsed and a
divblock is created for each video. - The sorting is done using the javascript
sortfunction. - The Dockerfile is used to build a Docker image to run the project using Docker.
- It is also deployed to Heroku here
- Create a project in the Google Developer Console
- Click on the Enable APIs and Services, search for YouTube Data API v3 and click on Enable.
- Click on Credentials in the left menu and click on Create Credentials.
- In the Where you will be call the API from select Web Server and select Public Data in What data will you be accessing? and click the next button.
- Copy the API key and assign the value of YOUTUBE_API_KEY variable in the
utils.pyfile
Using Docker
- Make sure you have docker installed.
- Build the docker image using (might take some time)
docker build -t youman .- Run the image using
docker run -p 8000:8000 youmanRunning locally
- To run you need Python3.5+ and pip installed.
- Clone the repository and enter into it using
git clone https://github.com/techytushar/youman.git && cd youman- Install
virtualenvmodule to create a virtual environment using
[sudo] pip3 install virtualenv- Create a virtual environment using
virtualenv .- Activate the virtual environment using
source bin/activate- Install all the dependencies using
pip install -r requirements.txt- Export the FLASK_APP environment variable using
export FLASK_APP=app.py- Run the app using
flask run -h localhost -p 8000- Open a browser and navigate to
http://localhost:8000