Node Cacher

app.js

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var express = require('express')
  , http = require('http')
  , https = require('https')
  , config = require('./feeds')
  , cache = require('cache');

var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

var rand = Math.random() * 5 + 1

app.get('/', function(req,res) {

  res.send("Test");

});

app.get('/:feed', function(req,res) {

  if (typeof config.feeds[req.params.feed] == "object") {

    var f = config.feeds[req.params.feed];
    var data = "";

    console.log(f.uri);

    var htpc = https.get({
      'host': f.uri,
      'port': 443      
    }, function(res) {
      res.setEncoding('utf8');
      console.log("in request");
      res.on('data',function(chunk){
        
        console.log(chunk.length);
        data += chunk;     
        console.log(data.length)   

      });
      res.on('end', function() {
        if (f.ttl != 0 && f.ttl != undefined && f.ttl != null) {

          if (data != '') {

            console.log(data);

          }

        }
      })
    });

    htpc.on('error', function(e) {
      console.log('problem: '+e.message+" "+f.uri)

      for (var i in e) {
        console.log(i + ": " + e[i]);
      }
    });

    htpc.end();

  }

  res.send("Hello!! " + config.feeds[req.params.feed]);

});

app.listen(3000, function(){
  console.log("Express server listening on port 3000");
});

feeds.js

// Cacher configuration

exports.feeds = {
	"twitter": {
		"uri" : "api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=nessthehero&count=1",
		// "uri": "www.google.com",
		"ttl" : 30
	}, 
	"youtube": {
		"uri" : "gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nessthehero/favorites",
		// "uri": "www.google.com",
		"ttl" : 30
	}
}

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