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March 23, 2018 16:48
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Proxy a REST/json request to an external API in Node.js
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const http = require('http') | |
const httpS = require('https') | |
const Router = require('router') | |
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000 | |
const router = Router() | |
router.get('/', (req, res) => { | |
res.write('REST API is up!'); | |
res.end(); | |
}) | |
router.get('/test', (req, res) => { | |
console.log('calling pandora...') | |
httpS.get('https://api.nextbigsound.com/events/v1/entity/356?start=17167&end=17256&access_token=8c089170d31ea3b11f1ea65dbfc8ea46', (apiRes) => { | |
let data = ''; | |
apiRes.on('data', (chunk) => { | |
console.log('processing pandora data...') | |
data += chunk | |
}); | |
apiRes.on('end', () => { | |
console.log('dispatching pandora data...') | |
res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "application/json"}); | |
res.end(data); | |
}); | |
}).on('error', e => { | |
console.log('Pandora API error', e); | |
}); | |
}) | |
const serverMain = (req, res) => { | |
router(req, res, (req, res) => {}); | |
} | |
http.createServer(serverMain).listen(port); | |
console.log('REST API listen port '+port); |
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