Building the REST API
I'll be using gin for this part of project.
Gin is a web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a martini-like API with performance that is up to 40 times faster thanks to httprouter. If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.
TLDR
First we create our go.mod file:
go mod init Intersect_api
Then we'll create our main.go file and add the following code.
// main.go
package main
import (
"Intersect/server"
"log"
"os"
"time"
"github.com/getsentry/sentry-go"
)
func main() {
// Initialize Libraries
// Initialize and defer Sentry
if err := sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
Dsn: os.Getenv("SENTRY_DSN"),
}); err != nil {
log.Fatalln("Sentry Init Error: ", err)
}
defer sentry.Flush(2 * time.Second)
// Initialize Server
server.Init()
}
- Create a server module and initialize the server
/// server.go
package server
import "github.com/getsentry/sentry-go"
// Init : Initialize the routes and server
func Init() {
r := NewRouter()
err := r.Run()
if err != nil {
sentry.CaptureException(err)
}
}
- Good rule of thumb to add some middleware with a token required
// middleware.go
package server
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
func AuthMiddleware() gin.HandlerFunc {
authHeader := "let-me-in"
// os.Getenv("AUTHORIZATION_STRING")
return func(c *gin.Context) {
requiredAuth := c.Request.Header.Get("Authorization")
if requiredAuth != authHeader {
c.AbortWithStatusJSON(http.StatusUnauthorized, map[string]string{"message": "unauthorized peasant 😃"})
}
c.Next()
// middleware
}
}
- Then we'll create default cors, routes and also call our middleware inside the router.use() method
package server
import (
"Intersect/scraper"
"github.com/gin-contrib/cors"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
/// router.go
func NewRouter() *gin.Engine {
// gin.SetMode(gin.ReleaseMode)
router := gin.New()
// Gin and CORS Middlewares
router.Use(gin.Logger())
router.Use(gin.Recovery())
/// Cors
router.Use(setCors())
/// Declare Middleware
authorized := router.Group("/")
authorized.Use(AuthMiddleware())
{
authorized.GET("", scraper.Greet)
searchRouter := authorized.Group("search")
searchRouter.GET("", scraper.GetImgs)
}
return router
}
// Cors
func setCors() gin.HandlerFunc {
return cors.New(cors.Config{
AllowOrigins: []string{"*"},
AllowMethods: []string{"GET", "OPTIONS", "PUT"},
AllowHeaders: []string{"Origin", "Authorization"},
ExposeHeaders: []string{"Content-Length"},
AllowCredentials: true,
})
}
Then we'll create a scraper directory/module and create two files
-
greeting.gofor default route and -
search.gofor the request route. (Because the default route will be lonely).
package scraper
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
func Greet(c *gin.Context) {
c.JSON(http.StatusOK, map[string]string{"sup": "🤘🚀"})
}
- And now the main component of the server, we'll scrape the images from various websites for free and non-stock images.
package scraper
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"strings"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
"github.com/gocolly/colly"
)
func GetImgs(c *gin.Context) {
searchQuery := c.Query("q")
res := getSearch(searchQuery)
c.JSON(http.StatusOK, res)
}
func getSearch(searchQuery string) Images {
searchString := strings.Replace(searchQuery, " ", "-", -1)
c := colly.NewCollector()
c.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X x.y; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0"
c.AllowURLRevisit = true
c.DisableCookies()
array := []string{}
// Find and visit all links
c.OnHTML("img[src]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
src := e.Attr("src")
if src != "" {
array = append(array, e.Attr("src"))
}
})
// Requesting a url for html
c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) {
fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL)
})
// search query
pexelsQuery := strings.Replace(searchString, "-", "%20", -1)
stocSnapQuery := strings.Replace(searchString, "-", "+", -1)
//
c.Visit("https://unsplash.com/s/" + searchString)
c.Visit("https://burst.shopify.com/photos/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=" + searchString + "&button=")
c.Visit("https://www.pexels.com/search/" + pexelsQuery + "/")
c.Visit("https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=" + pexelsQuery)
c.Visit("http://www.google.com/images?q=" + stocSnapQuery)
c.Visit("https://stocksnap.io/search/" + stocSnapQuery)
//
return Images{
Count: len(array),
Data: array}
}
type Images struct {
Count int `json:"counts"`
Data []string `json:"data"`
}
After that, we'll build a binary using
go build -o /bin/Intersect_api -v .
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