youtube-video-search

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.

Solution Description

1. I have created a django application named fmp_youtube containing an app youtube.

2. Running Instructions

   Terminal 1

   git clone https://github.com/shubhpy/youtube-video-search.git

   cd youtube-video-search

   docker build . -t fmp_youtube

   docker run -it -p 8000:8000 fmp_youtube

   Terminal 2

   cd youtube-video-search

   python tests.py

Future Scope

1. Youtube Data API Qouta is quite low for a day (10k queries), if we make a single call for search with snippet, it is counted as 100.
2. Cron is running fine right now but keeping qouta in mind, quite tough to fetch a latest videos.