Giphy

[gkasdorf]

Add GIFs to comments and posts with Giphy.

• Not using Giphy SDK. Phones home too much data to Giphy (Meta)
• Not allowing client to interact with Giphy API directly (same reason)

How it works:

1. User submits a Giphy query to Memmy API
2. Memmy API submits the search query.
3. Memmy API returns to the client the direct URL to each image and a proxied URL to each image.
4. The client displays the results to the user through the proxied URL.
5. User selects the image they want to add to the comment/post.
6. The direct URL to the image is added to the comment/post.
7. For one hour, Memmy will - on the user's device - replace the direct Giphy URL with a proxied URL.

This should prevent any peculiar tracking done by Meta. Maybe a bit over the top, but whatever.

Requests: https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy-api/blob/main/app/Giphy/giphySearch.ts
Proxy: https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy-api/blob/main/app/Controllers/Http/GiphyController.ts