Continue Watching API

Example of a simple implementation to build a continue watching api on top of Redis

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• Favorites API
• Ratings API
• Stream Limit API
• User Segmentation API
• Recommendation Engine

Requirements

• nodejs v10+
• redis

Usage

• git clone [email protected]:Eyevinn/continue-watching-api.git
• cd continue-watching-api
• npm install
• Start Redis locally or insert the needed keys into the .env file
• npm start to run the server

Endpoints

• POST /position/:userId/:assetId/:position where position is in seconds
• GET /position/:userId/:assetId to get position on a given asset
• GET /position/:userId to get all positions for a specific user, newest first.

Environment variables

• NODE_ENV if set to development there will be some logging made into the console
• REDIS_URL if not local
• REDIS_PORT if not default (6379)
• REDIS_USERNAME
• REDIS_PASSWORD

Docker

A docker-compose config file is provided that takes care of building the image and running this container together with a Redis db container.

Start the service:

• docker-compose up

Stop the service:

• docker-compose down

The Redis container is using /tmp as persistant storage but this can be changed by modifying the docker-compose.yml file. Change:

    volumes:
      - /tmp:/bitnami/redis/data

to where you want the persistant storage to be located.

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