nym/explorer-api

Network Explorer API

An API that provides data for the Network Explorer.

Features:

• geolocates mixnodes using https://freegeoip.app/
• calculates how many nodes are in each country
• proxies mixnode API requests to add HTTPS

Running

Supply the environment variable GEO_IP_SERVICE_API_KEY with a key from https://freegeoip.app/.

Run as a service and reverse proxy with nginx to add https with Lets Encrypt.

TODO / Known Issues

TODO

• record the number of mixnodes on a given date and write to a file for later retrieval
• dependency injection
• tests