Fake Bee

FakeBee is a CLI tool that generates fake Youtube Live events, and can produce them either to standard output or to a Kafka broker.

Usage

make
./bin/fb start -b kafka --broker <broker addr>:9092

If you need more info about commands, use the -h flag.

Configuration

Add the file fb_config.json to your HOME directory, or to the current working directory.

You can find an example in fb_config.json

Docker

docker build --tag fakebee .
docker run fakebee

Worker hierarchy

Each EventWorker produces one kind of events to one specific Kafka topic.

erDiagram
  Queen ||--|{ EventWorker: manages

  EventWorker {
   string Topic
   int Interval
   int BacklogSize
   string OriginChannelId
   string OriginVideoId
  }

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An origin is simply an entity representing a fake source of live chat events (a Youtube Live stream from a specific channel).

The topic can be one of:

• chats
• superchats
• superstickers
• memberships
• milestones
• banactions
• deleteactions

fakebee will create a corresponding Kafka topic if it does not exist in the cluster.