Interact with Microlink API without exposing your credentials.
NOTE: An Edge Proxy version is available.
Interacting directly with Microlink API from frontend side is one of the most common scenarios.
However, it could be a risk security scenario if you are exposing your x-api-key, being possible that anyone can steal it and consume your API quota.
For preventing that, this tiny microservice allows you interact with Microlink API without compromising your credentials.
Deploy this microservice, setting up the necessaries environment variables.
After that, every time you need to interact with Microlink API, just call the microservice URL instead.
If you are using mql, setup it as endpoint parameter:
const mql = require('@microlink/mql')
mql('https://microlink.io', {
endpoint: 'https://proxy.microlink.io'
})Required
Type: string|string[]
The list of authorized origins to consume your Microlink API credentials.
They should be provided in the URL.origin format (e.g., 'https://example.com').
Required
Type: string
Your Microlink API key used to authenticate your requests.
Type: string
Default: https://pro.microlink.io
The Microlink API endpoint used for sending the requests.
proxy © Microlink, released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Kiko Beats with help from contributors.
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