a docker container for streamlining the verification of JSON of youtube channel URL's by means of human in the loop

takes a JSON of [unverified] youtube channels pops the channel open in pupeteer (headlessly) screenshots and saves as $artist.jpeg for visual ID/verification

I was having architecture issues on mac with pupeteer's official docker image so it was done like this....

FROM node:18

# Install Puppeteer with Chromium
WORKDIR /app

# Set Puppeteer to skip downloading Chromium (we'll use system Chrome)
ENV PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true
ENV PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium

# Install Chromium for ARM/x86
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    chromium \
    chromium-sandbox \
    --no-install-recommends \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install puppeteer
RUN npm install puppeteer

# Copy script files
COPY youtube-screenshot.js .
COPY youtube_artist_channels.json artists.json

# Create screenshots directory
RUN mkdir -p /app/screenshots

CMD ["node", "youtube-screenshot.js"]

pass the "-v" flag to bind its volume to your local machine, otherwise you'll lose everything on exit, something like this

docker build -t screenshot .
docker run -v ~/Downloads/screenshots:/app/screenshots screenshot

bring your own json (its expecting some nulls and at least a artist field and channel field), like this...

{
artist: "some artist",
channel_id: "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
channel_title: "some text",
subscribers: "@other",
status: "found" },
{
artist: "46 Street",
channel_id: null,
channel_title: null,
subscribers: null,
status: "not_found" },

the docker file is expecting a specific name of the .js script, make sure its right