Check for player match performance data from their latest game and generate images which contain their statistics for the selected game.
These are uploaded to a S3 bucket and displayed on dashboard to track which posts generated and posted, containing a generated post caption, S3 file links and Google Image search links for recent photos for the player.
From this dashboard, posts can be managed with features such as uploading directly to Instagram (with editable captions and image order), generating unique images to display standout statistics, tracking uploaded/pending posts and deleting.
The custom image generator allows custom backgrounds to be inserted and select what stats to include on the image.
Previously hosted on an EC2 instance, players/teams to check are stored in RDS MySQL database and configured with an external cron job to run at scheduled times.
Currently hosted on a server and deployed in a docker container with data stored in aiven.io MySQL database.
An email notification is also sent to the configured email when new posts are generated.
To build jar use
./gradlew bootjar
To run with the executable jar
java -jar footballupdater-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Additional env params can be passed in with
java -jar footballupdater-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.profiles.active=prod
--SPRING_DATASOURCE_HOST=****
--SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=***
--SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=***
--SPRING_DATASOURCE_NAME=****
--MAILER_FROM_ADDRESS=****
--MAILER_FROM_PASSWORD=****
--MAILER_TO_NAME=****
--MAILER_TO_ADDRESS=****
--ENDPOINT_SECRET=****
The main configurable groupings are:
Sprint Datasource (Database)
SPRING_DATASOURCE_HOST
SPRING_DATASOURCE_NAME
SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME
SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD
Endpoint secret
ENDPOINT_SECRET
Dashboard password
DASHBOARD_PASSWORD
Datasource (Stat sources)
DATASOURCE_PRIORITY
Post Version
IG_POST_VERSION
IG_POST_ACCOUNT_NAME
IG_POST_DEFAULT_HASHTAGS
Stat Image generator
IMAGE_GENERATOR_ENABLED
IMAGE_GENERATOR_INPUT_PATH
IMAGE_GENERATOR_OUTPUT_PATH
IMAGE_GENERATOR_GENERIC_BASE_IMAGE_FILE
Mailer
MAILER_IS_ENABLED
MAILER_SUBJECT
MAILER_FROM_NAME
MAILER_FROM_ADDRESS
MAILER_FROM_PASSWORD
MAILER_TO_NAME
MAILER_TO_ADDRESS
MAILER_IS_ATTACH_IMAGES
AWS S3 Uploads
AWS_S3_IS_ENABLED
AWS_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_SECRET_KEY
AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME
AWS_S3_OBJECT_KEY_PREFIX - Optional
Facebook and Instagram API
FACEBOOK_API_CLIENT_ID
FACEBOOK_API_CLIENT_SECRET
FACEBOOK_API_RESPONSE_TYPE
FACEBOOK_API_SCOPE
FACEBOOK_API_REDIRECT_URI
FACEBOOK_API_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID
API endpoints can be configured to check for a secret to prevent unauthorized access. This value can be configured with
ENDPOINT_SECRET
and needs to be passed in a custom header
Auth-Secret
If no secret is set, all calls to the endpoint will be allowed.
The dashboard can be accessed at
hostname:port/posts
The Spring Security default login page is used and the password can be configured following the above.
DASHBOARD_PASSWORD
The Facebook API config needs to be set up in order to use the uploader. Other features all work without the Facebook login setup.
Create an app in the Facebook developer portal and configure the clientId, secret and redirectUris. The instagram account will need to be linked and accountId also configured.
Instagram publishing follows the flow reccommended by Facebook seen here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/content-publishing#carousel-posts
Due to Facebook's security rules, to run in an environment which is not "localhost", SSL needs to be configured (to use HTTPS connection) and a custom domain is required.
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Use to login to local MySQL
./mysql -u root -p
Current prod config points to an AWS RDS endpoint which is running MySQL.
Ensure the EC2 and RDS are within the same VPC and disable public access to avoid getting charged for multiple public IPs.
Update the application-[env].properties with the relevant config
SPRING_DATASOURCE_HOST
SPRING_DATASOURCE_NAME
SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME
SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD
One way to transfer jar to EC2
scp -i .\[key.pem] .\build\libs\app.jar ec2-user@[ec2 public dns]:[save path]
Install Java 20 onto instance
ssh -i .\[key.pem] ec2-user@[instance ip]
sudo rpm --import https://yum.corretto.aws/corretto.key
sudo curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/corretto.repo https://yum.corretto.aws/corretto.repo
sudo yum install -y java-20-amazon-corretto-devel
Set up service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/football-updater.service
Inside football-updater.service
[Unit]
Description=football-updater-spring
After=syslog.target
[Service]
User=[USER/root]
ExecStart=java -jar /home/ec2-user/app.jar --spring.profiles.active=prod
SuccessExitStatus=143
TimeoutStopSec=10
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Ensure jar path in run command contains the full path "/home/ec2-user/..."
Enable service
sudo systemctl enable football-updater.service
sudo systemctl start football-updater.service
systemctl status football-updater.service
# To see more logs - add -f to see log stream
journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=football-updater.service -f
# Restart service after file changes
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart football-updater
Alternatively use the dockerfiles to build and deploy. Ensure docker is installed on the machine.
Follow the instructions here to renew certificate and generate JKS https://keychest.net/stories/lets-encrypt-certificate-into-java-jks
Next move the JKS into path which matches the config > server.ssl.key-store
To set up fonts for image generation, copy font files across to ec2
scp -i .\[key.pem] .\src\main\resources\fonts\* ec2-user@[ec2 public dns]:~/.local/share/fonts
Add the following font files
/usr/share/fonts/ChakraPetch-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/Nike_Ithaca.otf
/usr/share/fonts/Wagner_Modern.ttf
Refresh font cache
fc-cache -f -v
Check fonts are available
fc-list | grep Wagner Modern
Additional reference for fonts on Linux https://medium.com/source-words/how-to-manually-install-update-and-uninstall-fonts-on-linux-a8d09a3853b0
Posts page:
Generate custom post page:
Upload to Instagram page:
