On the new streamers page (https://larastreamers.com/streamers), you have a link to show all the streams by a specific streamer. We currently use the search on the archive page for that in combination with the channel name.

This does now work quite well, because for the channel "Laravel" you will find other streams as well.
We should adapt the search to be able to search for stream only from one streamer. I guess it is enough if we make this work from the URL. (so we don't have to select something in the frontend)

I'm checking on the Twitch API looking for the Schedule API, but apparently it still in beta.

I was wondering if has any possibility to integrate the Twitch Streamers as a Live On/Off flag only. And making the schedule based on some scrapping command for now.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to do some development on the project, but I don't have php80 locally installed. This led me to the idea to PR the docker-compose with all required tools to work on the project.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks.

I just took a look at the rss feed and noticed that this does not really make sense for this kind of application.

Rss feeds are generally used for items published in the past. The streams are upcoming items.

The current implementation uses the updated_at field of each stream as the publish date which displays upcoming streams as published at a date in the past.

If we use the real scheduled_start_time, most rss readers will use the current time or only display the items once the scheduled_start_time is in the past.

This is how the current stream is displayed in Reeder 5.

Hello, I checked the source code and found that when new streams are added, it changes the schedule time zone to Europe/Vienna.

I believe UTC should be the default time zone, and you can convert that UTC into the users' time zone in the Home page.

I can update the code and submit a pull request if you agree.

I think it will be nice when importing stream you ask them to provide the Twitter handle(s) of the streamer(s) and an optional description. This will be useful when tweeting out about the stream on Twitter and people will know beforehand whose stream it is

eg:

or

Today Flare showed this Error: Undefined array key 0 (app/Http/Livewire/SubmitYouTubeLiveStream.php 55)

This probably happened because of the wrong input for the submission field for the YouTube URL/ID.
We need to handle those:

• Catch if there is no value given on app/Http/Livewire/SubmitYouTubeLiveStream.php 55?
• Rund validation before that call?

Currently, past/finished streams have the status of none.
This status should be changed to finished.

• make sure if a stream is finished, it will be set to finished (StreamData STATUS_FINISHED is already given, the value needs to change)
• all past streams in the DB need to be changed to finished.

Use a date format that works for our US friends as well.

When the new design is live, I would like to have a better flash message for the success message, instead of showing it inside the submission livewire component.

It would be nice if the weekly summary tweets link to a site where you can check those streams. Maybe a filter in the URL can do that to show those on the archive page so we don't need a new page.

Hi,

Disclaimer I'm lazy so here is an idea.

Instead of adding stream manually, wouldn't it be possible to fetch them over the YouTube, Twitch what ever API and how them added automatically to the calendar.

Could be a cron command that run every hour. And search for #larastreamers tag?

@christophrumpel You had a stream scheduled for yesterday, but never went live. So i stayed on the homepage. This could possibly happen to anyone. So i think this might be something to think about.

We could check this in the CheckIfUpcomingStreamsAreLiveCommand; maybe limit this to 3 hours in the past to limit the amount of request to youtube every 5 minutes? (I don't know if you worry about the api requests?)

Maybe we should also archive the streams after some time? (3 hours or a day or something)

What do you think?

Streaming on Twitch is totally different concept than streaming via YouTube.

On YouTube you can schedule a single stream with a starting time.
Twitch instead only allows you to add a weekly schedule due to its nature, it's like a TV show.

The only beneficial way to integrate Twitch for me would be via EventSub.

Workflow:

• Register a twitch streamer
• "Subscribe" channel via API (registers a webhook that gets pinged if the channel is live)
• Decide if we show the stream or not (some tag must be present or something else)

I have already a working API - will create a draft PR

• YouTube Names
• Stream or LiveStream
• Streamer or Channel (Channel on the BE, Streamer on the FE)

As a person who doesn't look at his calendar much and new streams popping in, as and when, it would be really great to be able to set reminders for the streams calendar.ics webcal subscription.

The icalendar-generator package being used has full support for this, in the form of an Alert component.

Not sure how this could be added to the UI, but maybe the URL itself (as a start) could support something like:
webcal://larastreamers.com/calendar.ics?alert=2H,30M (2 reminders, 2 hours before and 30 minutes before)

Any thoughts? Would anybody else appreciate something like this too?

Sometimes I get a submission right before the stream goes live which does not give me the time to approve it before it is live.

The issue now is that the stream is in the DB with upcoming status. The moment I approve it, the upcoming stream would end up on the home page.

Todo: Update stream when it gets approved so we have the correct status' . (ApproveStreamAction`)

The idea is to make a footer with the newsletter field and button.

The table will be pretty simple:

Table: newsletter

id: uuid
email: string
deleted_at: datetime

Routes:

POST - /newsletter
DELETE - /newsletter/{id}

Hope to finish today!

We already handled the imports through the channel command.

When searching on the archive the date on the items is no localized to the local time.

https://larastreamers.com/archive?search=Larastreamers

I noticed that the live stream of Freek is still displayed as "live" a few hours after the stream has ended. I think this may has something to do with the fact that the vod is private so the current state of the live stream cannot be fetched.

Hi.
Recently, a new feature was added for checking live stream's status, but I think it is expensive. There is a more efficient way to implement this feature.

Rather than querying all data in the database, query for the saved streams with STATUS_UPCOMING flag which scheduled for the current time or the time that has already passed. Then, if any data was available, send the request to the YouTube API.

In addition, the cron job frequency will need to be altered to every 10 seconds or any other time that is less than 2 minute.

WIll work on that ;)

We already 2-3 occasions where the upcoming tweet was sent while a stream was already live.

I'm not sure, but I think that was the case when I accepted a stream, that was already live.

Still, if the stream was already live, not tweet should have been send, so we need to check what caused this issue.

As I see it, there is no timezone defined when downloading the calendar.ics file, because it implies UTC.

The problem with this, is that when I subscribe to the calendar in my calendar app, it uses my local timezone but takes the time from the ICS file literally, thus having the wrong time.

(Wanted to follow the stream today and was 2 hours late 😅)

Or am I missing something obvious here?

Scheduled start: 2021-10-10 23:00:00 (UTC)

Still stream is shown under today which is wrong because it's tomorrow 1 am.

Create a social card for direct links to a stream listed on the site, like:

Instead of the add calendar text that obviously can't be clicked on Twitter, maybe have 2 or 3 time zones listed instead.

thanks to @devgummibeer for the image stolen borrowed from Twitter

We now have a channel connected to every stream. This means we don't need the channel title anymore on the streams table. Also, the slug field on the channel table is a bit misleading since it actually is the customUrl of YouTube channels, which not all channels have.

• Remove channel_title from streams table
• Check if channel_title is used from the stream model (change it)
• Rename slug to youtube_custom_url

We now store the channels of all submitted streams and show info like the description on the streamers page.
This info can change and so we have to regularly update them.

• Add new command to update all given streams (weekly)
• we can only get a max of 50 results by YouTube per call, so we might have to use multiple calls
• test for that command

I looked at the website and found that cards were not properly spaced out vertically.
Here's what they look like:

I can resolve this issue if you prefer.

When you navigate to another page you stay at the bottom of the page. But you should scroll back to the top of the page.

Currently the pagination design does not really match with the rest of the page.

Some days ago Freek changed the status of one of his streams to unlisted. Still, the stream was visible on Larastreamers which it should NOT be.

Both a package-lock.json and a yarn.lock file exist, as of now the yarn.lock file is the one that holds the current valid state of the node dependencies, the package-lock.json is outdated. I propose deleting either one of those file as not to cause confusion which package manager to use.

In the RSS feed, it looks like the author's name instead displays the title:

Would be awesome if there was a way to set a language preference to only show streams in a certain language. This way I can easily see which streams I can understand.

Bonuses would be the ability to save that language preference for future reloads and the ability to only add streams in certain languages to my calendar.

There is definitely a place for non-english streams even though i believe most of the streams will be in english. For example, @caneco on Twitter streamed in Portuguese a while ago, see this tweet for reference.

Now, assuming we agree that this feature has it's place in the app, here are some possible implementations.

First, add a Language select next to the Livestream ID input which would default to English as Youtube does not expose the Livestream language directly.

A lang column should be added to the Stream which would default to en.

Design

Of course, these two are very ugly but let's focus on how it works rather than how it looks.

Even though it is fairly unlikely to happen, one big con is that if there is a lot of scheduled livestreams with a lot of different languages, it will be very cluncky and not usable at all.

Another design idea similar to what the first implementation of the timezone select was :

Here the default selected language could be the one provided in the Accept-Language header.

Livewire could be used to implement this fairly easily for both propositions.

@christophrumpel Just had another issue with the calendar dates and times.

Looking at it right now, I see your Laravel Quiz is listed for "2021-07-01 18:00:00 (UTC)", but the stream calendar has it listed at "2021-06-30 11:00:00 (UTC)".

Could this be due to a date/time change of the event but the cache still holding an old value?

I do not know whether this is at all possible but I wanted to put the idea out there.
I am currently subscribed to the calendar that shows me all the streams but, and I hope you can forgive me for that, I am not interested in all those streams. What I am suggesting is allowing people to "attend" or "decline" these streams so that when they decline a stream it won't show up in their calendar anymore. This would also of course have to be done in such a way that one person cannot see other attendees to a stream.

Also I feel like this could be a GitHub discussion instead of an issue as this is at this point more like food for thought instead of an actual feature request.

Anyway, great work on the platform, enjoying it very much!

When you currently try to submit a new stream through a short YT URL like https://youtu.be/KSqpABOk1cc, it throws an error:

[2021-09-14 11:54:19] production.ERROR: Undefined array key "v"...

1. We should catch the error
2. Making it work with that URL too would be nice

The RSS feed is ordered by the time each item is published on the website, which I think is pretty irrelevant.

I would expect either the entry's date/time to be when the stream event is happening, or at least that the date/time/timezone of the event is included in the entry's description.