SearchYT-Server

A server that allows communication between the SearchYT SiriShortcut and the server to web scrape YouTube for videos.

Requirements

• Nodejs
• npm

Setup

After downloading, open terminal and navigate to /searchYTServer project folder. Assuming you have npm/node set up already:

  npm install .

then run node server.js to run the server, you'll see a message saying "You are live on port 8000", you then just put the ip of the device in the Shortcut as a url like so:

Running On Pi

To run on the Raspberrypi refer to puppeteer/puppeteer#550 for fixes.

But what i did was first in the /searchYTServer/app/routes/apis.jsfile scroll down to where it uses the pupeteer variable, where it launches should look something like pup.launch() and inside the paranthesis place {headless: true,args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'],executablePath: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'}, now exit and save. After that, make sure to enter super user by entering super su then run

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install chromium-browser

once it finishes downloading the armv version of chrome for the Pi, you can exit from super user so you don't accidentally destroy your pi by typing exit and then running the server with node server.js. Enjoy!