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https://github.com/vitosamson/modlogs

A service for allowing subreddits to publish their moderator logs
https://github.com/vitosamson/modlogs

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A service for allowing subreddits to publish their moderator logs

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/vitosamson/modlogs
Owner: vitosamson
Created: 2017-05-18T20:04:35.000Z (over 7 years ago)
Default Branch: next
Last Pushed: 2023-01-25T07:18:58.000Z (over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-13T23:54:30.060Z (6 months ago)
Language: TypeScript
Homepage: https://modlogs.fyi
Size: 1.05 MB
Stars: 14
Watchers: 2
Forks: 3
Open Issues: 53
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md

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README

        # Mod Logs

This is meant as a way for subreddits to provide transparency in their moderation.

If you're a moderator and want to enable Mod Logs for your subreddit, take a look at the [Moderator Instructions](ModeratorInstructions.md) file.

Moderator logs are fetched from the reddit API and stored in a Mongo database. The reddit API only provides logs for the past 120 days and doesn't provide a lot of flexibility in terms of filtering those logs, so we store them ourselves.

## Dependencies

You'll need:

  - Node 7+

  - MongoDB

  - Redis

Run `yarn install` to install the JS dependencies.

Mongo is used to store the moderator logs that we fetch. Redis is used to queue the log fetching and report processing.

## Running the app

### Development

Run `./run-dev`. You can pass any valid `docker-compose up` arguments to that script, e.g. `./run-dev -d nginx`. Make sure the appropriate environment variables are set.

Add the following lines to your hosts file:

```

127.0.0.1 modlogs.local

127.0.0.1 login.modlogs.local

```

Then you'll be able to access the UI at https://modlogs.local:4241. The server will be running in watch-mode, and UI hot reload will work.

### Production

`yarn ui:build` and `yarn server:build` to build, then ` yarn server:run` to run.

Or just run `docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up`.

#### Docker

The app is also dockerized for ease of deployment. There are a few docker images:

  - `web`: runs the API server and serves the UI. be sure to provide the correct env vars (see below)

  - `worker`: queues and processes logs, reports, etc. also needs env vars

  - `mongo`: runs the mongo database

  - `login`: a small OAuth microservice from [login-with](https://github.com/lipp/login-with)

  - `nginx`: frontend for the `web` and `login` services

  - `redis`: runs the redis server for the worker queue

Make sure to pass the appropriate environment variables into the docker containers when they're run.

### Environment variables

| variable | default | required by | note |

|---|---|---|---|

| `PORT` | `4245` | `web` | the port that the server will listen on |

| `APP_ID` |  | `worker` | the app ID given by reddit for API access |

| `APP_SECRET` |  | `worker` | the app secret given by reddit for API access |

| `REDDIT_USER` |  | `worker` | the reddit username to authenticate with |

| `REDDIT_PASSWORD` |  | `worker` | the reddit password to authenticate with |

| `USER_AGENT` |  | `worker` | the user agent to send with reddit API calls |

| `MONGODB_URI` | `mongodb://localhost:modlogs` | `web`, `worker` | the URI of your mongo server |

| `REDIS_URL` | `redis://localhost` | `worker` | the URI of your redis server |

| `ANALYTICS_KEY` |  | `web (during ui:build command only)` | the google analytics key |

| `LW_SESSION_SECRET` |  | `login` | https://github.com/lipp/login-with#mandatory-environment-variables |

| `LW_JWT_SECRET` |  | `login` | https://github.com/lipp/login-with#mandatory-environment-variables |

| `LW_REDDIT_CLIENTID` |  | `login` | https://github.com/lipp/login-with#reddit-specific-environment-variables |

| `LW_REDDIT_CLIENTSECRET` |  | `login` | https://github.com/lipp/login-with#reddit-specific-environment-variables |

| `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` |  | `worker` | for AWS glacier backups |

| `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` |  | `worker` | for AWS glacier backups |

| `GLACIER_BACKUP_VAULT` |  | `worker` |  |

| `GLACIER_BACKUP_REGION` |  | `worker` |  |

| `NODE_ENV` | `production` | `web` |  |

| `LOG_LEVEL` | `info` | `web`, `worker` |  |

| `ENABLE_METRIC_REPORTING` | `false` | `worker` | if enabled, logs certain metrics (reddit API hits, reports, etc) to an internal mongo db. disabled by default |

## Processing subreddits, logs, and reports

Subreddit, log and report processing are queued. There are two components to this: producers and consumers.

The consumers should be run in a worker process which stays running continuously:

` node build/server/queue/consumers`

This will ensure that any new queue items are processed.

The producers should be run periodically. There are currently three producers: one to fetch the list of subreddits, one for the logs and one for PMs which produce moderator reports:

` node -e "require('build/server/queue/producers/modlogs').run()"`  

` node -e "require('build/server/queue/producers/messages').run()"`  

` node -e "require('build/server/queue/producers/subreddits').run()"`

The env vars marked as required by `worker` are needed for both.

## Tests

Tests are run using `jest`.

To run the tests, run `yarn test` for a single run or `yarn test:watch` to run in watch mode. You can also pass additional options to jest by running `yarn test -- --opt1 --opt2 [etc]`.

The tests rely on a running Mongo DB accessible at either `mongodb://localhost:27017` or whatever the environment variable `MONGODB_URI` is set to.