Rapidapi and cloudflare workers based subscription API for spotify metadata

hi, i just released an api version of the opensource "spotiflite" spotify metadata scraper (https://github.com/sloev/spotiflite) that lets you fetch metadata for an artist.

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.