Rapidapi and cloudflare workers based subscription API for spotify metadata(rapidapi.com)
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Rapidapi and cloudflare workers based subscription API for spotify metadata
https://rapidapi.com/sloev/api/spotiflite
https://rapidapi.com/sloev/api/spotiflite
I thought it could be a fun exercise to see how easy it is now-a-days to setup a subscription paid api "without pulling up my credit card from the pocket"
so here is the steps i took:
1. setup a free api using cloudflare workers:
I started by creating the api on cloudflare workers since they are by far the cheepest and their fremium model makes it possibly to publish an api without a credit card.
Key learnings for me was:
* env vars can be created in the UI and then they get injected as vars in your js script.
* use the url.pathname to have multiple paths in one api
* Use custom headers from your apigateway provider to only respond to those requests.
The sourcecode for the cloudflare worker is here https://github.com/sloev/spotiflite/blob/master/cloudflare/w...
2. use rapidapi.com as api gateway
After i had created my api i needed a place to publish it and "receive moneyz cuz lulz" so i choose rapidapi cuz they dont need any credit cards either and have a simple way to setup.
With rapidapi i created an endpoint pointing to my new api with my new path: "artist-meta" and then i specified some ~random~ price ranges include a free option and pressed publish.
All in all, publishing an api and get moneyz for requests is more easy now than ever.