Use a start url

_meta/beat.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ youtubebeat:
   # Defines how often an event is sent to the output
   parallelism: 5
   max_depth: 10
+  start_url: "https://www.youtube.com"
 
 output.elasticsearch.index: "youtubebeat"
 

beater/youtubebeat.go

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func scrapeVideos(b *beat.Beat, bt *Youtubebeat, done chan bool) {
 		}
 	})
 
-	videoCollector.Visit(BaseUrl)
+	videoCollector.Visit(bt.config.StartUrl)
 	videoCollector.Wait()
 	logp.Info("Done parsing all videos")
 	done <- true

config/config.go

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
 package config
 
 type Config struct {
-	Parallelism int `config:"parallelism"`
+	Parallelism int    `config:"parallelism"`
-	MaxDepth    int `config:"max_depth"`
+	MaxDepth    int    `config:"max_depth"`
+	StartUrl    string `config:"start_url"`
 }
 
 var DefaultConfig = Config{
 	Parallelism: 5,
 	MaxDepth:    10,
+	StartUrl:    "https://www.youtube.com",
 }

youtubebeat.reference.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ youtubebeat:
   # Defines how often an event is sent to the output
   parallelism: 5
   max_depth: 10
+  start_url: "https://www.youtube.com"
 
 output.elasticsearch.index: "youtubebeat"
 

youtubebeat.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ youtubebeat:
   # Defines how often an event is sent to the output
   parallelism: 5
   max_depth: 10
+  start_url: "https://www.youtube.com"
 
 output.elasticsearch.index: "youtubebeat"