tomperi/nodejs-video-gallery

Description

Basic video gallery backend using Nest framework.

Features

This gallery allows the user to upload video files that will be stored locally. The system will generate a thumbnail for every uploaded video using Fluent-FFMPEG

APIs

GET /gallery

{
  "videos": [
    {
      "id": "6d5679cc-fd85-4cbf-a649-d95869d8e39b",
      "name": "first gallery video",
      "description": "this is the first video in this gallery!",
      "videoFilename": "gallery/video/6d5679cc-fd85-4cbf-a649-d95869d8e39b",
      "thumbnailFilename": "gallery/thumbnail/6d5679cc-fd85-4cbf-a649-d95869d8e39b",
      "uploadDate": "2021-10-16T22:41:00.788Z"
    }
  ]
}

POST /gallery

{
  "name": "give your video a name",
  "description": "give your video a description",
  "file": <video file upload>,
}

Will return the saved video id

{
  "id": "6d5679cc-fd85-4cbf-a649-d95869d8e39b"
}

GET /gallery/video/{id} will return the video file

GET /gallery/thumbnail/{id} will return the video thumbnail

Requirements

In order for the image processing to work, FFMPEG must be install on your system.

Installation

$ npm install

Running the app

# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod

Credits

The gallery comes preloaded with a single video by Ruvim Miksanskiy