http-proxy is a ratelimited HTTP proxy in front of the Discord API, making use of twilight.

HTTP clients often support proxies, such as Ruby's Net::HTTP. Read into your HTTP client to see how to use it.

twilight_http natively supports using twilight_http_proxy, so you can use it like this:

use twilight_http::Client;
use std::error::Error;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
    let client = Client::builder()
        .proxy("localhost:3000", true)
        .ratelimiter(None)
        .build();

    Ok(())
}

This will use the running proxy, skip the ratelimiter (since the proxy does ratelimiting itself), and will request over HTTP. If your proxy is configured to listen via HTTPS, then don't use HTTP.

By default, the proxy will use the token provided in the DISCORD_TOKEN enviroment variable for all requests. You can bypass this by providing a different token in the Authorization header yourself.

Prebuilt Docker images are published on Docker Hub.

$ docker run -itd -e DISCORD_TOKEN="my token" -p 3000:80 twilightrs/http-proxy
# Or with metrics enabled
$ docker run -itd -e DISCORD_TOKEN="my token" -p 3000:80 twilightrs/http-proxy:metrics

This will set the discord token to "my token" and map the bound port to port 3000 on the host machine.

Images come in multiple different variants for metrics, ARM, Discord API v8 and v6. You can use these with their corresponding image tags found on the Docker Hub tags page.

Build the binary:

$ cargo build --release
$ DISCORD_TOKEN="my token" PORT=3000 ./target/release/twilight_http_proxy

This will set the discord token to "my token" and bind to port 3000.

You can configure the behaviour when using multiple tokens with these enviroment variables:

• CLIENT_DECAY_TIMEOUT (in seconds; defaults to 1 hour) sets the timeout after which a HTTP client (and associated ratelimit information) will be dropped due to not being used anymore
• CLIENT_CACHE_MAX_SIZE (defaults to no limit) limits the amount of HTTP clients in the cache - if full, the least recently used client will be removed
• CLIENT_REAP_INTERVAL (in seconds; defaults to 10 minutes) changes the interval at which clients will be checked for decay

The http proxy can expose grafana metrics when compiled with the expose-metrics feature. These metrics are then available on the /metrics endpoint. You can set the metrics key used for the histogram data by setting the METRIC_KEY environment variable.

The exported histogram includes timing percentiles, response status codes, request path and request method. Calls to the metrics endpoint itself are not included in the metrics.