HerpDerpMadness Service

Using Facebook's Graph API, pull a Facebook group's members and feed. Gather various data from each and create a Bracket similar to college basketball's March Madness tournament. Contenders are paired against each other per-round. Their Matchup displays five random Posts from each contender and anyone can vote for which contender has the best posts.

For the front end I originally planned to use jquery-bracket. However, as the project dragged on I started to learn Vue. If continued I may switch to this vue-tournament-bracket repo.

Unfortunately, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook removed many of the endpoints I used to gather data from. Instead of finding a new way (if possible) I've decided to retire the project and move on. It is a well thought out effort though and I currently use it as a reference for other work.

Running

1. Install Dependencies
2. Create Configuration
3. Setup Database
4. Run

Install Dependencies

Just kidding, there aren't any yet.

Create Configuration

hdm-service can be configured via environment variables or a config file. The default is a config.json file in the project's root directory. I'm lazy and committed the one I use while developing. This is only okay because there is no sensitive data in it yet. The access token is long expired and this specific group id is for a secret group.

• fb_access_token - Grab one for development with the Graph API Explorer
• fb_group_id - Find this in the url for the group you'd like to use
• the db related fields are currently only supported for you project's root
• start_time and end_time are for which posts to gather from the group feed

{
  "fb_access_token": "EAAKweAs72uUBAJa2oNfSEG45MV8cYMxhBwakvbQI2z4MwlLWFqLM4BmYkY1HlygPOmjb17ddIoevcfEe6M3J6kpfFIqbg2TGlwdpOCZBZC7BHtTW6Sl5DgIWRICo79gw5vAcigR7NV9Xtqaa0WFmpA1PB4I9aIvPhTSf0xhm08Htm58zxUEFSFR2nF3yMZD",
  "fb_group_id": 208678979226870,
  "db_path": "/Users/joeselvik/projects/go/src/github.com/JoeSelvik/hdm-service/data.db",
  "db_setup_script": "/Users/joeselvik/projects/go/src/github.com/JoeSelvik/hdm-service/create_tables.sql",
  "db_test_path": "/Users/joeselvik/projects/go/src/github.com/JoeSelvik/hdm-service/test.db",
  "start_time": "2017-01-01T00:00:00+0000",
  "end_time": "2017-12-31T00:00:00+0000"
}

Setup Database

So far only two tables are needed, if project is completed this will become more complex.

$ sqlite3 data.db < create_tables.sql

Run

$ hdm-service

Tests

$ go test