geraldhaxhillari / image-search-abstraction-layer

Image Search Abstraction Layer

Image Search Abstraction Layer

An API which allows to get a list of links to images related to a specific term, and the latest searches.

Notes

I am using Google's Custom Search API, which allows only 100 free requests per day.

This project will not work out of the box, you should set some values in the .env file.

• MONGO_URL = a string used to connect to MongoDB, I used something like mongodb://localhost:27017/fcc-projects. Note: "fcc-projects" is the name of the database.
• API_KEY = key to use the Search Engine JSON API. More info here
• CX = another key, more info here

User stories

• I can get the image URLs, alt text and page urls for a set of images relating to a given search string.
  • What if there's no results? // An empty array will be returned.
  • What if the server does not answer or is down?
• I can paginate through the responses by adding a ?offset=2 parameter to the URL.
• I can get a list of the most recently submitted search strings.
  • Is it really necessary to use MongoDB? // No, but hey it is still practice, don't get lazy!
  • If there's no recent searches, return an empty array.
  • Show only the 10 latest searches (or less if there's less searches)

Questions

• What happens if I reach the API's 100 requests daily limit?