API

My personal api is available at https://dnnsmnstrr.vercel.app/api/

Available routes:

Route	Description
`/dennis`	Returns information about me
`/events`	A list of events in my life (used for my life-timeline)
`/social`	Returns a json of my social-urls
`/social/` + (`facebook`, `twitter`, `instagram`, `linkedin`, `github`, `youtube`, `spotify`, `telegram`)	Gets a redirect to the given profile page
`/playlist`	Returns a json of my Spotify playlists
`/playlist/` + (`current`)	Gets a redirect to a specific playlist
`/playlist/random`	Redirects to a random playlist
`/redirect`	Dynamically returns a Redirecting, matched to a list of aliases with fallback to social links and my homepage

Much of the data made available through this api is stored in gists.

2021-01-01

#Redirecting
- While working on my #API, I figured out a way to set up a system of dynamic redirects with alias matching. This means I can define multiple links that all redirect to a specific URL, for example /instagram, /ig and /insta all redirect to my instagram profile. The advantage of this is that I don’t have to remember a specific term, any other synonym I defined will work too.
- This was made possible by setting up a second domain (muensterer.link), that forwards requests to the /redirect route of my #API. I also modified the 404 page on my homepage to automatically attempt a redirect if the page does not exist.

Cloudflare
- A wildcard * is proxied through cloudflare (IP can be anything, like 8.8.8.8) and intercepted by a page rule, which rewrites the URL to from *.muensterer.codes/* to the current #API URL. The dynamic pattern allows the destination URL to include variables: https://dnnsmnstrr.vercel.app/api/redirect/$1/$2. This lets me access my redirects using subdomain notation (e.g. dennis.muensterer.codes).
Gist
- #API
Projects
- By working on random, seemingly useless projects, I apply the Project-Based-[[learning]] methodology. Regardless of how pointless these Ideas might seem, there is always something to learn while executing a project. For instance, my personal #API or Spotify playlist-sorting-app may very well be unnecessary, but I undoubtedly learned some valuable lessons while working on them, such as Publishing with Pages deployment, documentation or authenticating with third-party APIs.
Spotify
- The current playlist I’m listening to is available via my #API.
My website
- I also run a personal #API service on Vercel, which provides data to some of my Projects, as well as a Redirecting service with dynamic aliases, so I don’t have to remember any links and can just add what I’m looking for to the url of my website.
Popclip
- Get Redirecting using my #API
Acronyms
- #API – Application Programming Interface