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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# SponsorBlock Server
+
+SponsorBlock is an extension that will skip over sponsored segments of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.
+
+This is the server backend for it
+
+# Server
+
+This is a simple Sqlite database that will hold all the timing data.
+
+To make sure that this project doesn't die, I have made the database publicly downloadable at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database.db. So, you can download a backup or get archive.org to take a backup if you do desire.
+
+Hopefully this project can be combined with projects like [this](https://github.com/Sponsoff/sponsorship_remover) and use this data to create a neural network to predict when sponsored segments happen. That project is sadly abandoned now, so I have decided to attempt to revive this idea.
+
+# Client
+
+The client web browser extension is available here: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index fc75402..cd8f53c 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 var express = require('express');
 var http = require('http');
-
 // Create a service (the app object is just a callback).
 var app = express();
 
-//uuid service
-var uuidv1 = require('uuid/v1');
-
 //hashing service
 var crypto = require('crypto');
 
@@ -21,7 +17,10 @@ http.createServer(app).listen(80);
 
 //global salt that is added to every ip before hashing to
 //  make it even harder for someone to decode the ip
-var globalSalt = "49cb0d52-1aec-4b89-85fc-fab2c53062fb";
+var globalSalt = "49cb0d52-1aec-4b89-85fc-fab2c53062fb"; // Should not be global
+
+//if so, it will use the x-forwarded header instead of the ip address of the connection
+var behindProxy = true;
 
 //setup CORS correctly
 app.use(function(req, res, next) {
@@ -79,6 +78,10 @@ app.get('/api/getVideoSponsorTimes', function (req, res) {
     });
 });
 
+function getIP(req) {
+    return behindProxy ? req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] : req.connection.remoteAddress;
+}
+
 //add the post function
 app.get('/api/postVideoSponsorTimes', function (req, res) {
     let videoID = req.query.videoID;
@@ -95,18 +98,10 @@ app.get('/api/postVideoSponsorTimes', function (req, res) {
     }
 
     //hash the userID
-    userID = getHashedUserID(userID);
-
-    //x-forwarded-for if this server is behind a proxy
-    let ip = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || req.connection.remoteAddress;
-
-    //hash the ip so no one can get it from the database
-    let hashedIP = ip + globalSalt;
-    //hash it 5000 times, this makes it very hard to brute force
-    for (let i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
-        let hashCreator = crypto.createHash('sha256');
-        hashedIP = hashCreator.update(hashedIP).digest('hex');
-    }
+    userID = getHash(userID);
+    
+    //hash the ip 5000 times so no one can get it from the database
+    let hashedIP = getHash(getIP(req) + globalSalt);
 
     startTime = parseFloat(startTime);
     endTime = parseFloat(endTime);
@@ -181,18 +176,13 @@ app.get('/api/voteOnSponsorTime', function (req, res) {
     }
 
     //hash the userID
-    userID = getHashedUserID(userID + UUID);
+    userID = getHash(userID + UUID);
 
     //x-forwarded-for if this server is behind a proxy
-    let ip = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || req.connection.remoteAddress;
+    let ip = getIP(req);
 
-    //hash the ip so no one can get it from the database
-    let hashedIP = ip + globalSalt;
-    //hash it 5000 times, this makes it very hard to brute force
-    for (let i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
-        let hashCreator = crypto.createHash('sha256');
-        hashedIP = hashCreator.update(hashedIP).digest('hex');
-    }
+    //hash the ip 5000 times so no one can get it from the database
+    let hashedIP = getHash(ip + globalSalt);
 
     //check if vote has already happened
     privateDB.prepare("SELECT type FROM votes WHERE userID = ? AND UUID = ?").get(userID, UUID, function(err, row) {
@@ -273,7 +263,7 @@ app.get('/api/getViewsForUser', function (req, res) {
     }
 
     //hash the userID
-    userID = getHashedUserID(userID);
+    userID = getHash(userID);
 
     //up the view count by one
     db.prepare("SELECT SUM(views) as viewCount FROM sponsorTimes WHERE userID = ?").get(userID, function(err, row) {
@@ -293,18 +283,6 @@ app.get('/database.db', function (req, res) {
     res.sendFile("./databases/sponsorTimes.db", { root: __dirname });
 });
 
-function getHashedUserID(userID) {
-    //hash the userID so no one can get it from the database
-    let hashedUserID = userID;
-    //hash it 5000 times, this makes it very hard to brute force
-    for (let i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
-        let hashCreator = crypto.createHash('sha256');
-        hashedUserID = hashCreator.update(hashedUserID).digest('hex');
-    }
-
-    return hashedUserID;
-}
-
 //This function will find sponsor times that are contained inside of eachother, called similar sponsor times
 //Only one similar time will be returned, randomly generated based on the sqrt of votes.
 //This allows new less voted items to still sometimes appear to give them a chance at getting votes.
@@ -465,6 +443,7 @@ function getWeightedRandomChoice(choices, weights, amountOfChoices) {
 
     //iterate and find amountOfChoices choices
     let randomNumber = Math.random();
+    
     //this array will keep adding to this variable each time one sqrt vote has been dealt with
     //this is the sum of all the sqrtVotes under this index
     let currentVoteNumber = 0;
@@ -494,4 +473,13 @@ function getWeightedRandomChoice(choices, weights, amountOfChoices) {
         finalChoices: finalChoices,
         choicesDealtWith: choicesDealtWith
     };
+}
+
+function getHash(value, times=5000) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+        let hashCreator = crypto.createHash('sha256');
+        value = hashCreator.update(value).digest('hex');
+    }
+
+    return value;
 }
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