Scanner
Scanner is a tool to help find vpids with certain properties to be played on SMP.
It reads in multiple JSON feeds (Trevor and IBL) from across the BBC, takes the necessary info and prints to a pretty HTML file.
It's run daily providing fresh vpids for testing and development.
Once completed, Scanner is hosted on an S3 Bucket (which I wrote a guide on how to do it.)
What do I need to view the results?
To see the results simply view it through your browser!
What do I need to work on it?
To run it, you need Ruby installed on your local machine.
What version of ruby?
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-darwin14]
How do I run it?
First clone your own copy from this GitHub repo.
Once you've done that, simply run this command from your terminal -
ruby run_scanner.rb
Once that's finished you should see this file has been generated!
index.html
How do I upload Scanner?
You need to be a member of the Media Playout team and have access to our S3 buckets on AWS.
Once you have permissions, you can simply copy index.html into the bucket scanner.tools.bbc.co.uk
When that's done, make sure index.html has public permissions (Right-click the file!) so people can view it!
Is there a quicker way to upload!?
Yes there is!
If you have the AWS CLI installed with the following version
aws --version
aws-cli/1.11.90 Python/2.7.13 Darwin/14.5.0 botocore/1.5.53
And a valid aws config (that has permissions to the Media Playout buckets)
NOTE : This is just an example of what you'd need to configure, this is not a valid config!
$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]: ENTER
Then you can simply run the script upload_scanner.rb
ruby upload_scanner.rb
Author
william.daly@bbc.co.uk with significant contributions from aimee.rivers@bbc.co.uk