YouTube Livestream Archiver

About

This is an experimental project to explore different ways of automatically archiving YouTube livestreams.

Architecture

notification-server

The notification-server is a Node.js web-server that subscribes to YouTube's official pubsubhubbub endpoint to receive the push-notifications about target livestreams.

archiver

The archiver is a client to the notification-server and facilitates the actual archiving.

Installation

Setup the notification-server

The notification-server is designed to be run a node that can be reachable by pubsubhubbub. This requires your node to be mapped to a real domain name. The rest of this document assumes you've figured out that part.

Following are the steps to to setup the notification-server:

• Install Node.js
• Install pm2 - used for managing the process

npm install -g pm2

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/arkits/yt-livestream-archiver.git

• Install the dependencies

cd src/notification-server
npm install                     # or  yarn install

• Start the notification-server with pm2

pm2 start --name "ytla-ns" npm -- start

Alternatively, you can start the notification-server without pm2 -

node index.js

Handle traffic through Nginx

Here is how a pseudo Nginx server-block would look like -

location /ytla {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
}

location /ytla/socket.io {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/socket.io/;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}

Setup the archiver

The archiver is designed to be on any node that can access the notification-server and YouTube (duh!). This can be same node that runs the notification-server, or completely independent. Please factor in storage and network quotas in your deployment.

Following are the steps to to setup the archiver:

• Install Node.js
• Install pm2 - used for managing the process

npm install -g pm2

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/arkits/yt-livestream-archiver.git

• Install the dependencies

cd src/archiver
npm install                     # or  yarn install

• Start the archiver with pm2

pm2 start --name "ytla-arch" npm -- start

Alternatively, you can start the notification-server without pm2 -

node index.js