matievisthekat / game-monitor

Monitor the availability of games from Xbox and Nintendo!

Game Monitor

This project monitors game availability on Xbox and Nintendo sites (United States, Europe, Japan)

⚠️ this repository has been archived. if you want this project to be maintained please contact [e-mail] or fork this repo ⚠️

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Setup Instructions

• Note: you will need ~4GB of RAM and ~4 CPU cores to run this program efficiently
• Tip: any time you get a 'permission denied' error when running a command, try running the command again with sudo in front of it

Login to your server. You will have a username (it should be "root"), a password, and the server's ip address. If you are on windows you will need to install PuTTY. If you are on linux or mac just run ssh <username>@<ip>

Enter the password when prompted.

Run adduser <username> Replace <username> with a username of your choice

Run usermod -aG sudo <username>

Run su - <username>

Run sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y and allow it to update

Run sudo apt install -y ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator3-1 libasound2 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgbm1 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 lsb-release wget xdg-utils docker.io build-essential

Run curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash -

Run sudo apt install nodejs

Run npm i -g yarn

Run npm i -g pm2

Run git clone https://github.com/matievisthekat/game-monitor and login when prompted

Run cd game-monitor

Run yarn install

The project is now ready to run.

• If you want to make sure it works:
  • Run yarn start
  • The output should end with [api] Listening on port 3000
• If you want to run it in the background: (recommended)
  • Run pm2 start
  • Run pm2 logs 0
  • The output should end with [api] Listening on port 3000
  • You can now exit and the program will continue to run. It will update every Sunday