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openaustralia / morph

Take the hassle out of web scraping
https://morph.io
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Create a super simple API proxy #938

Open henare opened 8 years ago

henare commented 8 years ago

@robinmackenzie reported that it took him a while to understand that he'd be exposing his API key if he fetched morph.io data client-side and that you need to proxy API requests.

It made me think that we could create a super simple API proxy that you could deploy to Heroku using the Heroku button. It could even ask what scraper & query you wanted to use during the setup process. All without even leaving your browser - neat!

MikeRalphson commented 8 years ago

I've had a go at something like this here.

It supports pre-canned queries with replaceable parameters if you want to lock the proxy down that far.