terraform-serverless-mercury-parser-api

Description

This project implements the Mercury Parser API with AWS API Gateway and Lambda Function using Terraform.

Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more

Diagram

Build and Deploy

4. Git clone the mercury-parser-api git clone [email protected]:RecastLLC/mercury-parser-api.git
5. cd mercury-parser-api
6. Run yarn install inside the mercury-parser-api directory.
7. run yarn build - This command will build the lambda deployment zip file in the local path ./serverless/mercury.zip
8. Export the AWS Access keys to the environment
9. terraform init
10. terraform plan
11. terraform apply [-auto-approve]

This will deploy the API Gateway REST API resources and the lambda function with the Mercury Parser API nodejs zip.

How to Test

1 - Login to AWS Account and access the API Gateway resources

2 - Make a note of the API Gateway Stage Execution URL

3- Make a note of the API Gateway Access Key

Use the lambda_requestion.html as the HTML file as the payload and run the following command

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" \ 
-H "cache-control":"no-cache" -H "x-api-key:API_KEY_HERE" \
-d @lambda_request.html https://API_GATEWAY_EXECUTION_URL/STAGE_NAME/parse-html

Example command

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "cache-control":"no-cache" -H  \
"x-api-key:gHb7ARQQzv9Tl4JRrvpTU7018weheLITp8dBY6Od"  \
-d @lambda_request.html https://hbhsnscb63.execute-api.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Prod/parse-html

The result output will be Plain Text Extracted from the payload html file.