Stats API #

Little stats counters for my about page

App secrets #

This pad contains some secret keys which you will need to provide as environment variables. Use a .env to that locally, and now secrets to do it in production.

Here's the keys you need:

• AWS_ACCESS - AWS access key ID
• AWS_SECRET - AWS secret access key
• AWS_BUCKET - Bucket name to find withings.json (see below)
• FOURSQUARE_KEY - Foursquare OAuth token
• GITHUB_KEY - GitHub personal access token
• GOODREADS_KEY - Goodreads API key
• GOODREADS_ID - Goodreads user ID to look up
• LASTFM_KEY - Last.fm OAuth token
• LASTFM_USERNAME - Last.fm username to look up
• TWITTER_KEY - Twitter OAuth bearer token
• WITHINGS_CLIENT_ID - Withings Client ID (for OAuth token refresh)
• WITHINGS_CLIENT_SECRET - Withings Client Secret (for OAuth token refresh)

Why do I need AWS credentials?

Because Withings sucks. Unlike the other services here, the OAuth tokens Withings provides has an exceedingly short lifespan (about 3 hours). This means that we need a way to store and update those tokens more than the occassional redeploy with new keys. If I was developing this from scratch, instead of updating my previous work (the first version of this API used FitBit, but I wanted a nicer watch smh), I would likely just make a full-on server with database instead of this half-serverless thing I've got going on.

Anyways, it's exceedingly important than the provided bucket has a withings.json object containing, at minimum, an access_token and refresh_token.