parkerbot/README.md

ParkerBot

ParkerBot is a Matrix bot that monitors a channel for YouTube links and generates weekly playlists from them.

Running locally

1. Clone the repo
2. Install the dependencies, preferably in a venv:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source ./venv/bin/activate
   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Copy example.env to .env, customize it.
4. Source .env:

   source .env
   

5. Execute the app:

   ./main.py
   

Running as a container

1. Customize the compose.yml if necessary, you might want to change the data volume's path or make it a named volume.
2. Copy example.env to .env and customize it.
3. Run locally as described above at least once on a machine with a web browser. This is needed to get a valid token.pickle for YouTube. Copy it to the data directory where you want to run the container.
4. Run the container, this is an example with podman-compose:

   podman-compose up -d