# YouTube Notification Service – Overview

You need to use an [external Website like this one](https://channelsurfer.tv/tools/youtube-rss-feed/) to get the RSS feed ID for a channel.
## 1. Order of events

1. **Connect to the database:** Establish a connection to the database containing the subscribed YouTube channels.
2. **Retrieve subscriptions:** Fetch all subscribed YouTube RSS feed URLs from the database.
3. **Fetch RSS feeds:** Use `feedparser` to query each subscribed feed.
4. **Check for updates:** Compare the latest feed entries against the last known entry stored in the database.
5. **Send notifications:** If a new video is found, send its information (`title`, `body`, `link`, `timestamp`) to the `backend-api` using a POST request.
6. **Update database:** After successfully sending the notification, update the stored latest video information to prevent duplicate notifications.
7. **Close database connection:** Close the database connection once all subscriptions have been processed.

## 2. Dependencies

- **feedparser:** Parse YouTube RSS feeds and extract video information.
- **requests:** Send HTTP POST requests to the `backend-api`.
- **Database driver:** Connect to and query the database.

## 3. Things to improve once it works

- Handle unavailable RSS feeds without stopping the entire service.
- Handle failed API requests so notifications aren't accidentally marked as processed.
- Log errors and processing information using Python's `logging` module. Use a LOG_LEVEL to set it to either debugging or production(info)