Project Goal

To make an API to fetch latest videos sorted in reverse chronological order of their publishing date-time from YouTube for a given tag/search query in a paginated response.

Basic Requirements:

• Server should call the YouTube API continuously in background (async) with some interval (say 10 seconds) for fetching the latest videos for a predefined search query and should store the data of videos (specifically these fields - Video title, description, publishing datetime, thumbnails URLs and any other fields you require) in a database with proper indexes.
• A GET API which returns the stored video data in a paginated response sorted in descending order of published datetime.
• A basic search API to search the stored videos using their title and description.
• Dockerize the project.
• It should be scalable and optimised.

✔️ | Make a dashboard to view the stored videos with filters and sorting options.

To Run Locally

• Clone the project git clone https://github.com/mogiiee/fp-youtube-api.git

• Go to the project directory cd youtube_app

• Set up a virtual environment for the project:

  • python -m venv virtualenv
  • venv\source\activate

• download redis from this link

• Install dependencies pip install requirements.txt

• Modify settings.py File - add new YouTube Data API key at YOUTUBE_DATA_API_KEY

  • For getting API keys follow this link

• To start the server, celery worker and celery beat, run the following commands in three seprate terminals

  • python manage.py runserver
  • celery -A youtube_search.celery worker --pool=solo -l info
  • celery -A youtube_search beat -l INFO

• Go to the urls

  • http://localhost:8000/ # Youtube Home-Page with search feature
  • http://localhost:8000/viewlist/ # dashboard to view the stored videos with filters and sorting options