This application will retrieve or record the most popular Periscope broadcasts on a regular basis, and make these accessible through a handy Flask web interface.
Popular records are recorded live as soon as they reach a viewer thresold for the last 24h, and fully retrieved if replay is available. Chat is recorded too. Video chunk concatenation and thumbnail generation is done using ffmpeg.
Dependencies: Python ≥ 3.5, Flask, Python-Requests, AIOHTTP, PIL, Python-Websocket, Nginx, ffmpeg.
You need a MySQL server running. Database schema is created through crawler/scheme.sql.
mysql -u username -p password < crawler/scheme.sql
Fill in a config.py file, based on config.sample.py.
Run those two scripts in different terminal tabs:
$ cd crawler
$ ./peristopd.py
$ cd webapp
$ ./run.sh
Then, launch nginx using the nginx.conf script.
$ sudo nginx -c nginx.conf
You will then access the Periscope interface on http://localhost:80/ (if you didn't change the port).