Small updates in Readme and added comments in the configs. All bugs a…

…re probably fixed - ready for minor release

README.md

@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ The project uses YML config files along with command-line arguments. There are t
     - refresh_photos
     - set_priority
 - [commenter.yml](confs/commenter.yml): Used to run the `commenter` command
+  - One thing to bear in mind here is that the bot checks and comments only on videos not commented 
+  yet. So  the first time your run it you don't want to comment on every single video in the past few 
+  days. So make sure you set the `max_posted_hours` option to 1 and increase it the next days 
+  if you want.
 - [accumulator.yml](confs/accumulator.yml): Used to run the `accumulator` command
 
 I am not going to go into depth for each available setting because you can use the three YML files as
@@ -134,7 +138,8 @@ pool of available comments, and the bot automatically picks one that hasn't been
 respective channel yet, otherwise, it picks the one that was posted the longest time ago. Just create
 a `default.txt` file in a folder named `comments` and write one comment per line. If, for a specific
 channel, you want to have additional comments, create another txt file named after the channel's id.
-For example, you can create a `UC-ImLFXGIe2FC4Wo5hOodnw.txt` for the Veritasium YT channel.
+For example, you can create a `UC-ImLFXGIe2FC4Wo5hOodnw.txt` for the Veritasium YT channel that 
+has that id.
 
 ### Start following channels <a name = "add_channels"></a>
 

confs/accumulator.yml

@@ -1,28 +1,28 @@
 tag: accumulator
 datastore:
   - config:
-      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}
-      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}
-      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
-      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}
+      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}  # localhost or the IP of your DB
+      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}  # DB username
+      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}  # DB password
+      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}  # The name of your DB/schema
       port: 3306
     type: mysql
 youtube:
   - config:
-      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_ACC}
-      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_ACC}
+      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_ACC}  # YouTube client ID (see Readme)
+      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_ACC}  # YouTube client secret (see Readme)
       api_version: v3
       read_only_scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
-      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_ACC}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived)
-      comment_search_term: !ENV ${SEARCH_TERM_ACC}  # Can be omitted (username will be used instead - sometimes doesn't work)
-      sleep_time: !ENV ${SLEEP_TIME_ACC}
-      num_comments_to_check: !ENV ${NUM_COMMENTS_ACC}
+      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_ACC}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived). Useful when you are using a different api key for the accumulator
+      comment_search_term: !ENV ${SEARCH_TERM_ACC}  # Can be omitted (username will be used instead which sometimes doesn't work). It is used to search for your comment data under a video
+      sleep_time: !ENV ${SLEEP_TIME_ACC}  # Number of seconds to wait until checking for new videos again. Increase this if you are getting api limit errors
+      num_comments_to_check: !ENV ${NUM_COMMENTS_ACC}  # Latest N number of comments to check and update their metadata
       load_keys_from_cloud: true  # cloudstore config is required
-      keys_path: keys
+      keys_path: keys  # if true, cloudstore config is required. Loads the YT keys from the specified dropbox folder
     type: normal  # normal, simulated
 cloudstore:  # Optional
   - config:
-      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}
-      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs
-      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys
+      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}  # Dropbox api key, see Readme
+      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs  # The Dropbox path where the log files are going to be being backed up
+      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys  # The Dropbox path where the keys are going to be copied locally from
     type: dropbox

confs/commenter.yml

@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 tag: commenter
 datastore:
   - config:
-      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}
-      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}
-      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
-      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}
+      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}  # localhost or the IP of your DB
+      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}  # DB username
+      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}  # DB password
+      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}  # The name of your DB/schema
       port: 3306
     type: mysql
 youtube:
   - config:
-      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_COMM}
-      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_COMM}
+      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_COMM}  # YouTube client ID (see Readme)
+      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_COMM}  # YouTube client secret (see Readme)
       api_version: v3
       read_only_scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
-      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_COMM}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived)
+      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_COMM}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived). Useful when you are using a different api key for the accumulator
       load_keys_from_cloud: true  # cloudstore config is required
-      keys_path: keys
-      sleep_time: !ENV ${SLEEP_TIME_COMM}
-      max_posted_hours: !ENV ${MAX_POSTED_HOURS_COMM} # max num. of hours to check back for posted videos
+      keys_path: keys  # if true, cloudstore config is required. Loads the YT keys from the specified dropbox folder
+      sleep_time: !ENV ${SLEEP_TIME_COMM}  # Number of seconds to wait until checking for new videos again. Increase this if you are getting api limit errors
+      max_posted_hours: !ENV ${MAX_POSTED_HOURS_COMM} # max num. of hours to check back for posted videos. Set it to 1 the first time your run the commenter
     type: normal  # normal, simulated
-comments:
+comments:  # options: normal, simulated (simulated is just for testing)
   - config:
       local_folder_name: comments
       dropbox_folder_name: /yt-commenter/comments
     type: !ENV ${COMMENTS_TYPE}  # local, dropbox (should set `cloudstore` config), or mysql (not implemented)
 cloudstore:  # Optional
   - config:
-      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}
-      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs
-      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys
-      reload_data_every: !ENV ${RELOAD_DATA_EVERY}  # number of loops in commenter()
+      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}  # Dropbox api key, see Readme
+      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs  # The Dropbox path where the log files are going to be being backed up
+      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys  # The Dropbox path where the keys are going to be copied locally from
+      reload_data_every: !ENV ${RELOAD_DATA_EVERY}  # Every how many # of loops in the commenter() to reload data and backup logs
     type: dropbox
 #emailer:  # Not implemented yet
 #  - config:

confs/generic.yml

@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 tag: generic
 datastore:
   - config:
-      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}
-      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}
-      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
-      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}
+      hostname: !ENV ${MYSQL_HOST}  # localhost or the IP of your DB
+      username: !ENV ${MYSQL_USERNAME}  # DB username
+      password: !ENV ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}  # DB password
+      db_name: !ENV ${MYSQL_DB_NAME}  # The name of your DB/schema
       port: 3306
     type: mysql
 youtube:
   - config:
-      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_GEN}
-      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_GEN}
+      client_id: !ENV ${CLIENT_ID_GEN}  # YouTube client ID (see Readme)
+      client_secret: !ENV ${CLIENT_SECRET_GEN}  # YouTube client secret (see Readme)
       api_version: v3
       read_only_scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
-      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_GEN}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived)
-      load_keys_from_cloud: true  # cloudstore config is required
-      keys_path: keys
-    type: normal  # normal, simulated
+      username: !ENV ${USERNAME_GEN}  # Can be omitted (automatically derived). Useful when you are using a different api key for the accumulator
+      load_keys_from_cloud: true  # if true, cloudstore config is required. Loads the YT keys from the specified dropbox folder
+      keys_path: keys  # The local path of the YT keys
+    type: normal  # options: normal, simulated (simulated is just for testing)
 cloudstore:  # Optional
   - config:
-      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}
-      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs
-      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys
+      api_key: !ENV ${DROPBOX_API_KEY}  # Dropbox api key, see Readme
+      logs_folder_path: /yt-commenter/logs  # The Dropbox path where the log files are going to be being backed up
+      keys_folder_path: /yt-commenter/keys  # The Dropbox path where the keys are going to be copied locally from
     type: dropbox