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Cors-Proxy

Need a way for students to get around CORS issues for front-end only projects? Just set apiServerHost as a Heroku config variable, and have students point their API request to the Heroku-app instead of the API that doesn't support CORS.

Galvanize Student Proxies

  • For: http://www.omdbapi.com Use: https://g-omdbapi.herokuapp.com
  • For: https://api.brewerydb.com Use: https://g44-brewerydb.herokuapp.com
  • For: https://wikipedia.com Use: https://g-wikipedia.herokuapp.com/
  • For: http://api.yummly.com Use: https://g-yummly.herokuapp.com/
  • For: https://api.foodpairing.com Use: https://g-foodpairing.herokuapp.com/
  • For: 'http://food2fork.com/' Use: 'http://g-food2fork.herokuapp.com/'

Setup

  • Clone this repo and run: heroku create YOUR_APP_NAME. Replace YOUR_APP_NAME with g-API_URI so for http://www.omdbapi.com, use: g-omdbapi
  • Set the config var: heroku config:set apiServerHost=API_TO_PROXY replace API_TO_PROXY with the API you want to proxy. E.g.: heroku config:set apiServerHost=http://www.omdbapi.com
  • Update this readme with your API for future reuse.
  • Push to Heroku: git push heroku master

Usage

  • Make requests to: https://YOUR_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/?t=the+matrix&y=&plot=short&r=json