zackees / vids-db

vids-db

File based database to store video information.

This database provides efficient searches for a variaty of differerent common search patterns, like all videos in a channel, or all videos for everyone in the last 4 hours.

For a front end to this database, please see vids-db-server

Platform Unit Tests

Api

from vids_db import Database, Video
db = vids_db.Database("path/to/database")
vid = Video(...)
db.update(vid)
vids = db.get_video_list(date_start=date_start, date_end=date_end)
print(vids)

Full Tests + linting

• git clone https://github.com/zackees/vids-db
• cd vids_db
• tox

Networking Requests

• Please see Video.parse_json(...) for generating a type safe input json that can be used to insert videos into the database. See also vids-db-server.

Version

• 1.2.3: Fix duration parsing.
• 1.2.2: Fix indexes.
• 1.2.1: nit.
• 1.2.0: Fixes index. Old databases are abandonded after this update.
• 1.1.6: Adds migration on startup to fix niave datestamps.
• 1.1.5: Timezone niave datestamps are now rejected
• 1.1.4: bulk get_by_url
• 1.1.3: Adds remove by channel name, to allow deletion
• 1.1.1: Implements get_channel_names() to find all distinct channel names
• 1.1.0: vids-db now has full text search disabled by default (too processor intensive)
• 1.0.9: parse_json now can take in a dict
• 1.0.8: Adds parse_json
• 1.0.7: Relaxes views
• 1.0.6: Relaxes channel name to allow "NTD"
• 1.0.5: Fixes issue where datestamp was too strict