Rendering a site via the pages api

The NPO pages api is actually meant to facilitate searching in your site.

The objects it contains are quite complete though. This is a simple demo on how it could be used to actually serve a site via it.

It is implemented with python flask.

Running

The makefile documents how to run it.

The app can be configured with the following environment variables:

• secret: The NPO api secret

• apiKey: The NPO apiKey. This defaults to key of vpro

• origin: The NPO origin. This defaults to https://www.vpro.nl

• profile: The profile to base the site on. Defaults to vpro

• configdir: Set this to the cwd to get mentioned defaults working

Set up pyapi, with flask (pip install flask) and run

export secret=<see 1password or so>
configdir=$(pwd) profile=vpro flask run

I prepared a docker image with required dependencies too:

docker run --env secret=${secret} --env profile=vpro -p 8080:8080  mihxil/npoapi-pages

Via make:

make docker-run PROFILE=vpro

(it should be pulled from hub.docker.io. Nothing else needed. Just keep port 8080 free.)