shannenlm / crowd-sourced-song-rec

a webapp built with handlebars templating and a MongoDB backend (for CMSC389K at UMD, spr 2019)

Song Recommendations

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Name: Shannen Lam

Date: April 9, 2019

Project Topic: Best Songs and Their Ratings

URL: https://crowd-sourced-song-recs.herokuapp.com/

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1. Data Format and Storage

Data point fields:

• Field 1: Title Type: String
• Field 2: Artist(s) Type: [String]
• Field 3: Genre(s) Type: [String]
• Field 4: Language Type: String
• Field 5: Rate (out of 5) Type: Number

Schema:

{
   title: String, 
   artists: [String],
   genres: [String],
   language: String,
   suggested: Number,  
   rate: Number
}

2. Add New Data

HTML form route: /create

POST endpoint route: /api/create

Example Node.js POST request to endpoint:

var request = require("request");

var options = { 
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'http://localhost:3000/api/create',
    headers: { 
        'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' 
    },
    form: { 
       title: "i'm so tired...", 
       artists:["Lauv","Troye Sivan"],
       genres:["Pop"],
       language:"English",
       suggested: 1,
       rate: 5
    } 
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});

3. View Data

GET endpoint route: /api/getSongs

4. Search Data

Search Field: Song title

5. Navigation Pages

Navigation Filters

1. Best Songs -> /bestsongs
2. By Genre -> /bygenre
3. English Songs -> /english
4. Alphabetically -> /alphabetical
5. Random Rec -> /randomrec