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Show HN: A simple, work-in-progress API proxy
- terhechte 15y agoCool idea. For a long time I wanted to have some sort of API cache for offline hacking. I'm oftentimes on a train and would like to continue working on my apps which access external apis. I played with polipo and a couple of other options but never had successful results that worked across the board. I once wrote an extension into one of my apps that saved every request (minus access_code or other identifiers) in a local sqlite db and would simply return the cache in case internet is gone. However, it was implemented poorly and too much of a hassle. With this, I expect it could be easy to add caching support, I'll have a look and maybe fork it :) thanks!
- mattgreenrocks 15y agoThere is a gem called VCR that does this for testing. It's pretty sweet.
- terhechte 15y agothanks for the hint!
- philjackson 15y agoBut also add caching... :)
- pors 15y agoIt seems you are doing something very different from what apigee and mashable are doing by offering it hosted. I would promote that on you home page as it is your big USP (apart from being "free")
- philjackson 15y agoThanks for the suggestion, shall do.
- michaelmior 15y agoLooks cool! Just a suggestion that it would be good to have the GitHub link on the home page. It took me a while of rooting around before I finally found the repo on the install page.
- philjackson 15y agoAdded, thanks.