movie-box
Update a gist to contain your recently watched movies from trakt.tv
📌 ✨ For more pinned-gist projects like this one, check out: https://github.com/matchai/awesome-pinned-gists
✨ Inspiration
This code was heavily inspired by @jacc's music-box.
🎒 Prep Work
- Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/).
- Create a token with the
gist
scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new). - Create a Trakt.tv Application and copy the
API token
(https://trakt.tv/oauth/applications/new).
🖥 Project Setup
- Fork this repo.
- Go to your fork's
Settings
>Secrets
>Add a new secret
for each environment secret (below). - Activate github workflows on
Actions
>I understand my workflows, go ahead and run them
. - Star your own fork to trigger the initial build. Then the gist will update hourly. You can then go to your profile and pin the gist.
🤫 Environment Secrets
Set the following environment secrets on github.com/<github username>/movie-box
> Settings
> Secrets
:
- GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url
https://gist.github.com/<github username>/
<gist ID>
. - GH_TOKEN: The GitHub token generated above.
- TRAKT_ID: The Client ID you got from creating a Trakt.tv app.
- TRAKT_USERNAME: Your Trakt.tv username.
- MOVIE_BOX_MODE: Select the box mode from three options:
movies
,shows
andstats
.
🕵🏾 Hacking suggestions
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You can test the script locally with Docker Compose:
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Install Docker Community Edition according with your operating system
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Install Docker Compose according with your operating system.
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Install a git client.
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Clone your fork of the repository into your local computer.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the newly created folder.
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Change to the
develop
branch.git branch develop
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Create a
.env
file with the content of the environment secrets as variables, like this (with real values):GIST_ID=xxxx GH_TOKEN=xxxx TRAKT_ID=xxxx TRAKT_USERNAME=xxxx MOVIE_BOX_MODE=xxxx
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Execute the following command to create the docker image (first time only):
make image
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Execute the following command to install node dependencies:
make dependencies
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You can execute the update script with this command:
make update
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Or, alternatively, open a console where you can manually execute the script and debug any errors:
make console node index.js
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You can stop the docker container with:
make stop
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Or, destroy it completely:
make destroy
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