Hackerbeat indexes the top stories of HackerNews into an ElasticSearch instance.

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/Ullaakut/hackerbeat

• Golang 1.7

To build the binary for Hackerbeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name hackerbeat.

make

To run Hackerbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./hackerbeat -c hackerbeat.yml -e -d "*"

To test Hackerbeat, run the following command:

make testsuite

alternatively:

make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report

The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/

Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields which is automatically generated based on fields.yml by running the following command.

make update

To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:

make clean

To clone Hackerbeat from the git repository, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/Ullaakut/hackerbeat
git clone https://github.com/Ullaakut/hackerbeat ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/Ullaakut/hackerbeat

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

The beat frameworks provides tools to crosscompile and package your beat for different platforms. This requires docker and vendoring as described above. To build packages of your beat, run the following command:

make package

This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The hole process to finish can take several minutes.