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VideoCutTool is a tool to trim, crop, rotate on-the-fly videos in Wikimedia Commons. It is hosted in Wikimedia Toolforge and can be found at https://tools.wmflabs.org/video-cut-tool/

Background

VideoCutTool deals with the video encodings and if the traffic is too hight the back-end server is going down and it happened a couple of times in the most recent days.

Task:

• Learn about VideoCutTool from Commons: VideoCutTool
• Create a script to ping the server for every x min and if the server is down, restart the server using webservice --backend=kubernetes nodejs restart and the other way could restart the server by using any external libraries. There are multiple ways in fixing this find the best way and fix it :)

Code Repos:

• VideoCutTool-back-end: https://github.com/gopavasanth/video-cut-tool-back-end/

Resources

• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Web#node.js_web_services