Systemd service

Systemd service

Directory structure

/home/user/ytcw/
├── channels.yaml
├── deploy.sh
├── dist-original
│   ├── <generated html, css etc. files>
├── ytcw.service
├── ytcw.sqlite3
├── ytcw.timer
└── ytcw-website (git repository)
    └── dist
        ├── < minified html, css etc. files>

Timer

ytcw.timer file:

[Unit]
Description=Run ytcw every 3 hours
Requires=ytcw.service

[Timer]
Unit=ytcw.service
OnCalendar=*-*-* 00,03,06,09,12,15,18,21:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Service

ytcw.service file:

[Unit]
Description=ytcw autoupdate
After=network.target
Wants=ytcw.timer
Requires=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=no
Type=oneshot
WorkingDirectory=/home/user/ytcw/
ExecStart=/home/user/.local/bin/ytcw ytcw.sqlite3 channels.yaml -o dist-original/
ExecStartPost=/home/user/ytcw/deploy.sh
Environment="PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
User=user
Group=user

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

deploy.sh

Using minify to minify the files.

deploy.sh file:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

run_id=$(openssl rand -hex 4)

echo "run_id=${run_id}"

rm -rf ytcw-website/dist/

minify \
  --recursive \
  --output ytcw-website/dist/ \
  --html-keep-comments \
  --html-keep-conditional-comments \
  --html-keep-default-attrvals \
  --html-keep-document-tags \
  --html-keep-end-tags \
  --html-keep-quotes \
  --html-keep-whitespace \
  dist-original/

# Omitted in this example
cp robots.txt ytcw-website/dist/

cp dist-original/_headers ytcw-website/dist/

cd ytcw-website/ || exit 1

git add .

git commit -a -S -m "${run_id}"

git push

Setup

Setup, create a new GitHub/GitLab repository, configure SSH keys etc. Connect your preferred static site host to your git repository and configure it to deploy the dist/ directory ("build output directory").

Example SSH config file (please read the docs):

# GitLab.com
Host gitlab.com
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_gitlab

sudo cp ytcw.timer /etc/systemd/system/

sudo cp ytcw.service /etc/systemd/system/

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Test it with:

sudo systemctl enable --now ytcw.timer

Status/output:

systemctl status ytcw.service

or follow it:

journalctl -u ytcw.service -f