WebAPI

This repository provides the source code primary API endpoint of the ClassTranscribe Server. Copyright (C) University of Illinois, USA. 2019-2026

The source code in this repository is licensed here. Please email angrave at Illinois if you are interested in alternative licenses of this code and related intellectual property.

Build Status

Branch	Status
Production
Staging
Experimental

Pull requests, Submitting code and copyright.

In submitting code to this repository - for example by issuing a git pull-request, or working directly with ClassTranscribe developers to merge or add code - you agree to re-assign copyright of the code to the University of Illinois.

Build Instructions

This repository is in the form of 3 docker services,

1. The ClassTranscribeServer (service name - classtranscribeserver, accessible on port 8080)
2. A postgresQL database server (service name - db, accessible on port 5432)
3. A pgadmin server, which allows to interact with the db using a GUI interface (service name - pgadmin, accessible on port 5050)

To build this repository,

1. Install docker

2. Obtain all the environment variable files from an admin

3. To start all the services

   docker-compose up
   

   To start a single service

   docker-compose up [service_name]
   

   Eg.

   docker-compose up -d api
   

   "-d" option allows running the service in a detached mode

4. That's it.

Building Docker Images Manually

You can also build any of the three services individually for testing using one or more of the following commands:

docker build -t classtranscribe/api:latest -f API.Dockerfile .
docker build -t classtranscribe/pythonrpcserver -f pythonrpcserver.Dockerfile .
docker build -t classtranscribe/taskengine -f TaskEngine.Dockerfile .

Overriding PYTUBE_VERSION

By default, the pythonrpcserver is built with the latest version of pytube available from pypi.

To build pythonrpcserver with a specific version of pytube (for testing purposes):

docker build -t classtranscribe/pythonrpcserver -f pythonrpcserver.Dockerfile . --build-arg=PYTUBE_VERSION=12.1.0

This will run an optional build step to override the installed version of pytube with the target version downloaded directly from Github.

Notes

1. If there are dependency changes made to classtranscribeserver, you are required to rebuild using docker-compose docker-compose up --build api
2. After making any code changes to rebuild code, just re-run the service, docker-compose up api
3. Refer gotchas.md for known coding blunders.