internet4000 / edapi

Proxy for the Discogs API

Proxy API for Discogs

This a node.js proxy api for Discogs. It…

• send authenticated requests to Discogs
• caches everything with a Redis server

How to use

1. Set environment variables in a .env file
2. Deploy this repo to any node host
3. Replace api.discogs.com with edapi.glitch.com in your requests

How does it work?

1. Create free Redis database on https://redislabs.com/
2. Express.js API with middleware to cache
3. disconnect module for speaking with Discogs
4. redisio module for speaking with Redis
5. A middleware function that either returns cache OR runs route and sets cache

Does it work?

Test the cache response speed in the terminal with ./test-performance.sh. You might need to chmod +x test-performance.sh as well.