This implementation does not implement the full SponsorBlock server API. It supports hash-based queries to `/api/skipSegments/<hash>`, with optional `categories` parameter, and queries to `/api/skipSegments` with required `videoID` and optional `categories` parameters.
The browser extension works with only the hash-based query endpoint, but other clients, such as the one in ReVanced, require the video ID endpoint, and additionally query `/api/userInfo` and `/api/isUserVip`. Right now there are stub implementations for these. ReVanced had not yet been verified as compatible.
## Building
To make a local release build, use `cargo build --release`. This will produce a binary in `target/release/sponsorblock-mirror`.
To make a Docker container, you need to do a BuildKit Docker build, not a normal Docker build. Make sure you have `buildx` available in your Docker, and run:
This starts the API server, a database, and a mirroring service to download the SponsorBlock data from the `sponsorblock.kavin.rocks` mirror and keep it up to date.
The API will be available on `http://localhost:8000`. For example, you can try `http://localhost:8000/api/skipSegments/aabf` or `http://localhost:8000/api/skipSegments?videoID=eQ_8F4nzyiw`. **It will take a few minutes at least for the database to download and import,** so these will not return data on the first run.
## Troubleshooting
* If the linker complains about a missing `-lpq`, make sure you have the PostgresQL development libraries, which may be in a `libpq-dev` package or your distribution's equivalent.
* If Docker complains that `the --mount option requires BuildKit`, make sure you are building with `docker buildx build` and not `docker build`.
* If `docker compose` complains like this:
```
ERROR: The Compose file './docker-compose.yml' is invalid because:
Unsupported config option for volumes: 'postgres_data'
Unsupported config option for services: 'sb-mirror'
```
then you are using an old version of `docker compose` which does not fully support the Compose Specification and [requires a 'version' key to differentiate the file from a V1 compose file](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#version-top-level-element). Try appending `version: "3"` to the file.
* To access the PosgresQL database directly, you can `docker exec -ti postgres-sb-mirror bash -c 'psql $POSTGRES_DB $POSTGRES_USER'`.
* Requests for videos not in the database are forwarded to `https://sponsor.ajay.app/`, which may be down or malfunctioning. A response of the string `Internal Server Error` is likely to be from there, rather than from this application.
