Is it possible to make this into an API?

Question

Is it possible to make this into an API?

nyamwaya opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Alex Nyamwaya commented 6 years ago

Peter Piekarczyk · Answer 1 · Wed Oct 17 2018 11:07:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey @nyamwaya,

We totally could! Would you be interested in helping?

Alex Nyamwaya · Answer 2 · Thu Oct 18 2018 01:47:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Absolutely! Let me know which way we should take it and I will definitely help :)

Peter Piekarczyk · Answer 3 · Thu Oct 18 2018 23:56:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey @nyamwaya

That would be awesome! Here are some cool things that I would try:

Puppeteer - this lets you spin up a headless chrome browser in the cloud, have it point to something and then it will generate a screenshot.

What we can do is create a new page like /get and pass in query params: /get?hair=Bob. The app will read the query params and use SvgLoader to render a 512 x 512 image.

Since this is the only thing on the page, the screenshot should work.

Node canvas

What we can do is hit a URL that consumes a set of query params and builds the DOM on the Node side. Node takes a photo of the image and returns it with the octect/stream or w/e header so it shows up as an image.

Let me know what you think!!

Peter Piekarczyk · Answer 4 · Thu Nov 29 2018 06:41:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey @nyamwaya are you still interested? If you are, feel free to re-open this issue. Thanks!