TrendTap

TrendTap is a full-stack web application that helps creators discover high-performing YouTube content and generate fresh content ideas. Users can search by keyword or select specific channels to analyze. The app retrieves and ranks videos by performance, and will evolve to suggest content strategies using AI-powered topic analysis.

Built with a React frontend and Spring Boot backend, TrendTap integrates with the YouTube API via RapidAPI.

Features

• Search YouTube videos by keyword
• View video results including title, thumbnail, and channel name
• Responsive frontend built with React
• RESTful API backend built with Spring Boot
• API key managed securely via environment variables

Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/AlexBogden/trendtap.git
cd trendtap

2. Backend Setup

cd backend
cp .env.example .env

Replace the placeholder value in .env with your actual RapidAPI YouTube API key.
The .env file is ignored by Git. The included .env.example file shows the expected format.

Start the backend server:

./mvnw spring-boot:run

The backend runs at http://localhost:8080.

3. Frontend Setup

cd ../frontend
npm install
npm start

The frontend runs at http://localhost:3000 and connects to the backend API.

API Endpoint

GET /api/search?q=your-query

Returns a list of YouTube videos matching the query.

Tech Stack

• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• React
• RapidAPI (YouTube API)
• Axios

Project Structure

/backend    # Spring Boot backend
/frontend   # React frontend

Author

Built by Alex Bogden