README.md

MovieCast API

Kickass got taken down and this API is no longer working, don't even try

Fetches movies from kat.cr

Before explaining anything we like to mention that if you are running the MovieCast API in a production environment, we highly recommend using Nginx as a reverse proxy.

Usage

There are two ways to use this api, either by building it yourself, or by using Docker

Normal

For normal use you will have to follow a couple steps to build the project.

npm install -g gulp
npm install
gulp build

After this you will have to configure the api by checking out the #Configuration section below. When you are done with the configuration of the api, simply run npm start or node dist.

Docker

For using docker you can just run the following commands:

docker pull moviecast/api
docker run -it -d -p 8000:8000 -e MONGO_URL='the connection url for mongodb' \
-e TRAKT_API_KEY='trakt key goes here' moviecast/api

To see which environment variables you can set, checkout configuration.

Configuration

See configuration, but first check out the simple guide below.

There are 2 ways to configure the api, lets start with the most straight forward one:

A config file

Create a config.json in the root of this repo (So where the README.md file is also located) and add the following content:

{
    "mongo_url": "something like: mongodb://localhost/moviecast-api",
    "apis": {
        "trakt": {
            "key": "Your trakt.tv client id"
        }
    }
}

don't forget to fill in the correct information.

Environment variables

When using this method you have to atleast set the following variables:

• MONGO_URL="something like: mongodb://localhost/moviecast-api"
• TRAKT_API_KEY="Your trakt.tv client id"