on-heroku

If you prefer to run webapp and worker, please checkout dynos branch.

on-heroku is designed to deploy the wayback service as a Heroku app, expect to reduce the cost of running the wayback service, and providing additional anonymity.

Installation

1-Click Deploy

Script (recommended)

The script requires to run with the root user, on a Docker container may be better options.

It will install Node.js in the /tmp directory and remove it automatically after deployment.

# sh <(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wabarc/on-heroku/main/setup -O -)

Running on Docker container:

$ docker run -ti --rm debian:stable-slim bash -c "apt update && apt install -y wget \
    && bash <(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wabarc/on-heroku/main/setup -O -)"

Manual

Install heroku

$ npm i -g heroku

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Login

$ heroku login -i
$ heroku keys:add

Pull

$ git clone https://github.com/wabarc/on-heroku.git
$ cd wayback-heroku

Create or add exists heroku app

Create an new heroku app:

$ heroku create --ssh-git your-app-name

or add exists heroku app:

$ heroku git:remote --ssh-git -a your-app-name

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Set heroku app stack

$ heroku stack:set container

Set a config var

The WAYBACK_ARGS config var is required by wayback process as an environment variable during running, more useful reference the wabarc/wayback.

$ heroku config:set WAYBACK_ARGS="--ia --is --ip -d telegram -t your-telegram-bot-token --debug"

PS: if you run with the script, the double quote is unnecessary.

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Deploy to heroku

$ git push heroku main

Start dyno

$ heroku ps:scale web=1

Deploy with heroku.yml

1. Clone repository

$ git clone https://github.com/wabarc/on-heroku.git

2. Add Heroku remote repository

$ git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:appname.git

3. Set the stack of your app to container

$ heroku stack:set container

4. Push to Heroku

$ git push heroku main

Maintenance

If you prefer to run the Heroku app regularly, the maintenance.sh is helpful to turn it into maintenance mode by crontab or other. It requires a Heroku authorization token during on running heroku command, and you can create one from the Heroku dashboard.

Usage

$ sh maintenance.sh
Usage: sh maintenance.sh [options]

Options:
    -a, --app <heroku app name>
    -h, --help Usage
    -k  --api-key <heroku authorization token>
        Heroku authorization token, create an new token:
        https://dashboard.heroku.com/account/applications/authorizations/new
    -m, --mode <maintenance mode>
        Maintenance mode for heroku app, options: on, off (Default: on)

Example

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wabarc/on-heroku/main/maintenance.sh -O - | \
    sh -s - -k your-authorization-token -a your-app-name

running on Docker container:

$ docker run -ti --rm alpine:3.12 sh
# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wabarc/on-heroku/main/maintenance.sh -O - | \
    sh -s - -k your-authorization-token -a your-app-name -m off

Related projects

• wabarc/wayback

Credits

• Heroku
• ShellCheck

F.A.Q

For Heroku free accounts, if an app has a free web dyno, and that dyno receives no web traffic in a 30-minute period, it will sleep. You may need a tool (e.g. crontab, Cronitor, New Relic) to request https://your-app.herokuapp.com/healthcheck regularly to prevent it from sleeping.

License

Permissive GPL 3.0 license, see the LICENSE file for details.