Warning This repository has been archived as Google is now properly returning CORS headers and this workaround is no longer necessary.

💿 Image Downloader

This repository holds both the Terraform infrastructure code as well as the simple Javascript application that runs inside the AWS Lambda function.

This application code is a basic image downloading service that takes in a URL to a Google Emoji Kitchen source image, download it, and send the data to the front-end client.

The infrastructure supporting this backend application is a simple public API Gateway that forwards valid requests to the Lambda function.

This backend application is used to support the website https://emojikitchen.dev for quick and reliable bulk downloads.

Why?

This backend application is required because Google does not allow cross-origin requests on their source URLs. Specifically, their source images do not have the access-control-allow-origin header set to *. Without this header, requests from other domains cannot be made to it via a users browser.

Getting Started

This repository leverages VSCode's devcontainer feature to ensure all necessary dependencies are available inside the container for development.

Application

The application code for this repository is contained in the ./app directory.

To get started:

cd app/ && npm init

All application deployments are managed via GitHub Actions and the ./.github/workflows/deploy_application.yml workflow.

Infrastructure

The infrastructure code for this repository is contained in the ./terraform directory. The required Terraform version is 1.1.2. The AWS artifacts managed in this repository are illustrated below.

To get started:

cd terraform/ && terraform init

All infrastructure deployments are managed via GitHub Actions and the ./.github/workflows/deploy_infrastructure.yml workflow.