A clubhouse events search engine

#elasticsearch #javascript #clubhouse #amazon

These last few days I decided to get back to coding (a bit) and eventually ended up with a #clubhouse search engine for events.

Here are the steps I followed.

First, I needed to access the "undocumented" and non public clubhouse API.
I give it a try with this repo:
https://github.com/stypr/clubhouse-py

Although written in python, I ported the few pieces (auth and access to event list) in typescript with axios.

I coded a daemon in nodeJS to fetch the events on a regular basis (with a throttle limit in order to not get banned from calling the API).
I then installed elasticsearch (actually hosted on elastic cloud) with Elastic builder (to be able to craft nice query) https://elastic-builder.js.org/.
This allow me to stored events on the cloud on elastic.

Deployment concerns, I had a lot of choices, I decided to give amazon elastic beanstalk a try (nothing to do with elastic search though). This is super easy to set up and deploy. (more information here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_nodejs.html)

And then, this is it. A simple express/node server deployed on Amazon Elastic beanstalk + elastic search.

Took me 3 full days (cause I'm a bit rusty).

Https://clubhouse.flint.sh