Async Backend Functionality

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.

The server fetches latest videos async after every 10 minutes and saves it to the db.

This project is completely based on Django.

Method Used

Used Celery Celery to fetch videos after every 10 seconds using YouTube data v3 API

Used RabbitMQ RabbitMQ as message broker.

Setup Guide

• Clone the project
• As this project is based on Django, your system need to have proper python setup, refer this
• Create a VirtualEnvironment -> Active the virtual environment
• Go the project through the terminal and install all dependencies by using typing pip install requirements.txt in the terminal
• Inside the setting.py file, fill the variable YT_API_KEYS the API Key available
• For getting an API key follow this
• Setup crontab to run Job, Follow this
• Run the server using python mange.py runserver
• Run celery celery -A assignment worker -l info - Separate terminal tab
• Start celery async process celery -A assignment beat -l info - Separate terminal tab