if you'd like to help maintain bay.lgbt, please shoot me an email! I am actively looking for co-maintainers due to being short on time as of late. I'm looking for people who can implement features, fix bugs, and/or keep the list of event organizers up-to-date and curated! The latter doesn't require any coding experience.
an lgbt events aggregator for the SF bay! yes!
- anarchism.nyc is pretty neat! I wonder if the bay has one
- let's rewrite the codebase, (✨ but using a frontend framework that might deprecate in a few years ✨)
- let's spend an unreasonable amount of time making it look pretty, before getting any functionality xd
- let's have the client fetch everything; too lazy to get a server run (haha)
- CORS, my old friend... time look for a free CORS proxy :3
- wow the rate limit for Eventbrite sucks. I also don't want client auth...
- ok fine let's make a server
- ...what if we also added server-side rendering?
- ...what if... we hosted on Vercel, despite being in debt?
stale-while-revalidatearc: let's add excessive caching & rate limits so i can sleep at night- why does everyone use Instagram for events?
- Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events. (x100)
- to parse Instagram posts for anything resembling a structured event format, we would probably need to use GPT
- we should also DB server to cache the results so I don't bleed money from OpenAI calls. But Vercel is serverless, so can't use sqlite... pain....
- why do some Instagram posts... only include event information in the image??
- Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events. (x100)
- let's add an OCR AI API 🫠
- stares at Google's labyrinthian docs for 3 hours figuring out how to get auth
- ok, it works! but any of these calls might fail... let's sketchily add caching at each step
- (Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events.) (x10)
- suddenly running into Vercel's 10 sec timeout for Free tier (why does Eventbrite take so long??): more pain 😀. Fork $20/mo to Vercel for a 60 sec timeout instead
- open beta! (ꈍ ‿ ꈍ ✿)
- surprise surprise: Instagram's API is once again causing issues- 200 requests per hour (per user, of which there is 1 in this case). let's spread out the requests but milk that limit as much as possible.
- adds many various other APIs (Wix, Squarespace, With Friends, etc.)- not too bad but fearful that APIs make change/break at any time, haha...
- adds a frightening number of event sources all around the bay
- realize the potential endless API hell I've gotten myself into- takes a cold shower and puts up Donation link
- Ivy politely asks forbiddentickets.com to expose an events API, and they graciously agree ❤️
- someone forked bay.lgbt for their city and I'm excited and a little nervous
- Ivy hibernates for a few months
- Nuxt (the JS framework) updated from version 2 to 3? I'll deal with this later, haha
- Ivy hibernates for a few months
- wow, web dev is pain (puts up ad for co-maintainers)
- Lily joins the project as a co-maintainer
- Pulls hosting off of Vercel
- Re-writes large chunks of the server-side code, largely to decouple user requests for the data from the scraping process. This enables user-facing requests to always be served from our servers directly, bypassing expensive work and going faster! :3
- Re-states the organization's position that you should please stop using Instagram for events ten thousand times over
You can use the dev task to run the development environment locally. This will start up bay.lgbt on localhost:3000.
$ npm install --locked
$ npm run dev
There are a number of environment variables that you can set locally to influence the dev environment. Our server library Nitro has its own variables as well. If a variable has a default value, it is indicated below.
# Port the dev server should listen on
NITRO_PORT=3000
EVENTBRITE_API_KEY
GOOGLE_CALENDAR_API_KEY
# These next variables are required for displaying Instagram event data
INSTAGRAM_BUSINESS_USER_ID
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET
BASE_URL
GOOGLE_CLOUD_VISION_PRIVATE_KEY
GOOGLE_CLOUD_VISION_CLIENT_EMAIL
OPENAI_API_KEY
WIX_SYZYGY_COOP_API_KEY
WIX_SYZYGY_COOP_ACCOUNT_ID
WIX_SYZYGY_COOP_SITE_IDDonations to keep bay.lgbt running are appreciated! Transparently, here are the costs to maintain the site:
- Domain: $8/mo