Warning

Project made for personal use, use at your own risk

Go Video Viewer

This is a server written in go for me to watch anime. What are the requisites?

1. All video files are inside a folder
2. The modified time of the files is the order in which I'll watch
3. After watching I want to choose whether to keep, like or just mark as watched
4. If I choose not to keep a file, it'll be truncated (for me to remember not to download twice)
5. I want to be able to watch again files I keep
6. The database needs to be updated with the videos in the folder

Progress

• endpoints
  • next in queue /next-video
  • list saved /video-list
  • watch saved /watch/{id}
  • serve video file /video/{id}
  • read folder to update database /update
  • create home page with statistics /
• respect parameters
• truncate files
• refactoring
• make ini the same name as executable
• automatically create ini file when it doesn't exist

Motivation

I made this project first using svelte (version 4) + Bun, but the start time is eye boggling long (above 20s). So I used this opportunity to put my go skills into practice and try solving this minor inconvenience.

Getting started

1. Download and install go version 1.23.1 (or make it work on other version on your own)
2. Install Templ
3. Generate templates

   templ generate
   

4. Build the project

   go build -o bin/
   

5. Create an go-video-viewer.ini file in the /bin folder (ini file must have the same name as the executable)

   database= # database path
   video_folder= # video folder path

6. Run the executable

The ini file

The ini file can have the following properties:

property	description
database	The database file path. Ex: database=videos.db, database=C:\Program Files\go-video-viewer\database.db
video_folder	The path of the video folder. Ex: video_folder=C:\Users\me\Videos, video_folder=videos
address	(OPTIONAL) The address used to run the server (default on 127.0.0.1). Ex: localhost, 127.0.0.1
port	(OPTIONAL) The port used to run the server (default on 3000). Ex: 8000, 8080, 16217

Migrating from the previous project

In the previous version of this project, the "database" was a JSON file with the following schema:

{
    "watched": [
        {
            "name": "file name + extension",
            "date": "some ISO format date",
            "favorited": true, // omitted if false
            "save": true // ommitted if false
        },
        ...
    ],
    "toWatch": [
        {
            "name": "file name + extension",
            "date": "some ISO format date",
            "favorited": true, // omitted if false
            "save": true // ommitted if false
        },
        ...
    ],
    "current": {
        "name": "file name + extension",
        "date": "some ISO format date",
        "favorited": true, // omitted if false
        "save": true // ommitted if false
    }
}

So to import this data into this project you can inform the command line argument json-file, using it like this:

.\go-video-viewer.exe --json-file "path to the json file"