Movie rating API

REST API created in Node.js that allows users to browse and rate movies present in the OMDb API database.

Deployment

This application utilizes a PostgreSQL database. If you don't have a local instance of Postgres running on your machine, I highly recommend using PostgreSQL docker image to deploy it and use with this application. Once you get your database up and running, make sure to create the database with the same name you use in the .env file. Required tables will be created automatically if they don't exist. Connection details and other necessary information should be included in a .env file in the project's root directory. Below is an example of the .env file:

DB_NAME=my_database
DB_USERNAME=db_user
DB_PASSWORD=super_safe_password
DB_HOST=localhost
OMDB_API_KEY=your_api_key
AUTH_TOKEN=auth-token
SECRET=secret

AUTH_TOKEN property is used as the name of a header that will be used along with JWT to authenticate users. SECRET is also used by JWT to create tokens. Other properties are self-explanatory.

In order to start the application, begin by cloning it to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/meehaw1337/movie-rating-api
cd movie-rating-api

Then, install all required dependencies:

npm install

Finally, start the application:

npm start

Make sure that your Node.js version supports ES6 modules.

Simplified API specification

Registering an user

To register an user, a POST request at /api/users/register needs to be sent, with the username and password as the body of the request:

{
    "username": "cool_guy_1337",
    "password": "very_secret"
}

Logging in

To log in, a POST request similar to the one used in registration should be used, with the exception that the URL changes to /api/users/login. If the login process is succesful, an authorization token is returned in a header of the response, it's name is equal to the property described by AUTH_TOKEN in the .env file. All endpoints described below require this token to authenticate the user.

Movie search

Movie search can be performed by sending a GET request at /api/movies/search, the title parameter should be present in the request's parameters. Example response (make sure to include the auth-token):

{
    "Title": "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope",
    "Year": "1977",
    "Genre": "Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi",
    "imdbID": "tt0076759",
    "UserRating": 3,
    "AverageRating": 4.333333333333333,
    "Favourite": false
}

Adding and removing movies from favourites

Users can mark (or unmark) a movie as his or her favourite by sending at POST request at /api/movies/favourite with the movie ID (imdbID) in the request body:

{
	"movieId": "tt0076759"
}

and a action parameter with the value of either mark or unmark.

Rating a movie

Users can rate movies by sending a POST request at /api/movies/rate with the movie ID and rating in the request body:

{
	"movieId": "tt0076759",
	"rating": 3.0
}