Installation

ItemsAPI was tested only on Ubuntu 18 and Debian. It's packed also in minimalistic Alpine docker so it should work from source on any popular Linux machine

Download and launch

Download, compile and launch ItemsAPI. It was tested on fresh Ubuntu 18 machine

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev python-dev build-essential htop curl git software-properties-common -y 
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev -y
sudo apt-get install lmdb-utils liblmdb-dev -y

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt install nodejs

git clone https://github.com/itemsapi/itemsapi.git
cd itemsapi
npm install

# optional
# creating swap for small servers i.e. DigitalOcean 512 MB RAM
# https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-debian-8

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

PORT=3000 node server.js

# optional - set more RAM limit in Node.JS
# PORT=3000 node --max-old-space-size=6000 server.js

This command starts the latest ItemsAPI server

docker pull itemsapi/itemsapi:latest
docker run --privileged -it -p 3000:3000 itemsapi/itemsapi