YouTube automatically creates subtitles for a lot of videos that are uploaded to YouTube. So instead of paying to have your videos transcribed, you can upload your video to YouTube, and programatically download the subtitles. But it took me a while to figure out how to get those subtitles programatically. I started with youtube-dl, but [...]
It is actually pretty convenient to have credentials and keys stored in the same repository as your codebase. Of course this is unsafe, as anyone (if you're using public repos) can use those credentials to access your infrastructure (databases, servers, 3rd party APIs). So firstly if your code is not for public use, a private [...]
I use forever to start my Node.js scripts, to ensure that if it crashed, it would just auto-restart. An issue arises though if the server itself reboots. Which for some reason happened on a DigitalOcean droplet I was using. So I needed to figure out a way to restart the forever process on system reboot. [...]
You're probably reading this because you already have a Let's Encrypt certificate issued using certbot for a domain, and now want to add-on subdomains. If you want to create a new certificate, have a look at the end of this article. In my case I already had a certificate which covered golightlyplus.com www.golightlyplus.com I have [...]
Gmail provides the option to filter unwanted emails to your Bin. Click here for the instructions on how to do that. The emails though only get automatically permanently deleted after 30 days. So if you are trying to block someone from emailing you, and you have weak moments and end up checking the trash, you [...]
Once your droplet is created and you've ssh'd in, it's time to set some things up.. I start off by installing nvm. You can find the command for the install script here. At the time of writing, I used curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash I needed to exit my terminal, and then ssh back in. [...]
I decided to switch from Apache to Nginx. I have a couple of WordPress sites on a DigitalOcean droplet, so I needed to reconfigure them to be used with Nginx. I basically followed this guide which was great for most of it, but I was still not getting the sites loading properly (404 errors, forbidden). [...]
If you're creating an app where you need to access Google services from a server, you'll need to store the refresh token from the Google Oauth process. The access tokens periodically expire, so you need the refresh token to manually get a new access token when you need it. So if you're using the Passport [...]
If you have a front-end that needs to accept a CSV file, upload it to a server using jQuery, and then have that Node.js server process that CSV file, then this a way to do it. First up, the HTML https://gist.github.com/magician11/94e7e900b9b390fb4a53b1d32cc38476#file-index-html and then the jQuery that takes the selected CSV file, and uploads it to [...]
I had an issue where I needed to scrape some data from a dynamically generated webpage. Open this page in a browser and you'll see what I mean. I tried a lot of options, and the solution that ended up working for me was to use Headless Chrome. This basically allows you [...]