Rickroller

A clever rickrolling service that shows proper video metadata to web crawlers while redirecting regular visitors to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Features

• Spider Detection: Identifies web crawlers and bots using spider-detector
• Open Graph Support: Fetches and displays proper video metadata for social media previews
• Modern Codebase: Updated dependencies with security patches
• Development Tools: ESLint, Prettier, and Jest testing configured

Installation

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Or with Yarn
yarn install

Usage

# Start the server
npm start

# Development mode with auto-reload
npm run dev

# Run tests
npm test

# Lint code
npm run lint

# Format code
npm run format

How It Works

1. User visits /v/:videoId with any YouTube video ID
2. Spider detector checks if the visitor is a bot/crawler
3. For bots: Fetches and displays actual video metadata
4. For humans: Redirects to the rickroll video

Environment Variables

• PORT - Server port (default: 3000)
• NODE_ENV - Environment (development/production)

Security

This project has been updated to address all known security vulnerabilities. Regular dependency updates are recommended.

License

Private project