Video Streaming Platform API

This is a comprehensive backend API for a video hosting website, built with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and Mongoose. It follows standard industry practices including JWT-based authentication (Access & Refresh tokens), secure password hashing (Bcrypt), and file uploads to cloud storage (Cloudinary).

🔗 Live Server: https://video-streaming-platform-api-bweu.onrender.com
📚 API Documentation: View the full Postman Docs here

Features

• User Authentication: Secure signup and login using JWT. Token refreshment logic is also built-in.
• Video Management: Upload videos, publish them, update titles/descriptions, change thumbnails, and delete videos.
• Social Features:
  • Like or dislike videos, comments, and community tweets.
  • Comment on videos with full CRUD functionality.
  • Subscribe or unsubscribe from channels.
• Playlists: Create curated playlists, and add or remove videos from them.
• Community: Channels can post text-based tweets for their subscribers.
• Analytics Dashboard: Fetch detailed statistics for a channel, including total video views, total subscribers, and total likes across all videos.

Tech Stack

• Node.js & Express.js: Server and API routing
• MongoDB & Mongoose: Database and ODM (Object Data Modeling)
• JWT: Authentication & Authorization
• Bcrypt: Password hashing
• Multer: Local file uploading middleware
• Cloudinary: Cloud storage for video and image files

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository and install dependencies:

   npm install

2. Environment Variables: Create a .env file in the root directory and configure the following variables:

   PORT=8000
   MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
   CORS_ORIGIN=*
   ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret
   ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY=1d
   REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_refresh_token_secret
   REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY=10d
   CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_name
   CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key
   CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret

3. Start the server:

   npm run dev

   The server will start on http://localhost:8000.

API Endpoints Reference

All routes are prefixed with /api/v1

• Users: /users/register, /users/login, /users/logout, /users/refresh-token, /users/change-password, /users/current-user, /users/c/:username, etc.
• Videos: /videos, /videos/:videoId, /videos/toggle/publish/:videoId
• Tweets: /tweets, /tweets/user/:userId, /tweets/:tweetId
• Subscriptions: /subscriptions/c/:channelId, /subscriptions/u/:subscriberId
• Playlists: /playlists, /playlists/:playlistId, /playlists/add/:videoId/:playlistId, /playlists/remove/:videoId/:playlistId, /playlists/user/:userId
• Likes: /likes/toggle/v/:videoId, /likes/toggle/c/:commentId, /likes/toggle/t/:tweetId, /likes/videos
• Comments: /comments/:videoId, /comments/c/:commentId
• Dashboard: /dashboard/stats, /dashboard/videos