RandomYouTubeComment

As of 6/29/12, an example of this application can be found at http://randomyoutubecomment.herokuapp.com.

What it does

Gets you a pseudo-random comment from a psuedo-random YouTube Video.

Installation

Installation requires Ruby >= 1.9.2-p290* and the Bundler gem.

• This may work on earlier Ruby versions, but it has only been tested on Ruby 1.9.2-p290 and Ruby 1.9.3-p194.

To install:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Set your Wordnik API key (Rename config/app_config.yml.example to config/app_config.yml and update the Wordnik API key or set the WORDNIK_KEY env variable depending on deployment.)
3. Install the necessary gems: bundle install

Usage

To run the application, execute ruby web.rb.

Setting the 'Accept' header of a request to application/json will return a JSON object in the following format:

{"author":"Author Name","comment":"YouTube comment body","comment_id":"the_youtube_comment_id","title":"YouTube Comment Title","video_id":"youtube_video_id"}

Setting it up on Heroku

A Procfile has been included, so deployment to Heroku is as easy as creating a Heroku stack, setting the ENV[wordnik_key] variable on the new stack, and pushing the application to Heroku.

If the Heroku gem hasn't been installed, install it: gem install heroku.

Make sure you are in the root directory of the application and that there is an initialized git repository (if you cloned this repository, this will already be the case).

Then:

1.    `heroku create --stack cedar`
   

2.    `heroku config:add WORDNIK_KEY='your_wordnik_api_key'`
   

3.    `git add .` *- only necessary if the git repository was freshly initialized.*
   

4.    `git commit -m 'preparing for heroku deployment'`
   

5.    `git push heroku master`
   

6. boom. navigate to the url provided by heroku and enjoy.

Is it any good?

I suppose.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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