CartoDB-SQL-API/README.md

SQL API for cartodb.com

Provides a nodejs based API for running SQL queries against CartoDB.

• Users are authenticated over OAuth or via an API KEY.
• Authenticated requests to this API should always be made over SSL.

core requirements

• postgres
• redis
• node >v0.4.8 && < 0.7.0>
• npm

usage

Edit config/environments/.js Make sure redis is running and knows about active cartodb user.

node [cluster.js|app.js] <environment>

Supported values are developement, test, production

for examples of use, see /tests

Install dependencies

npm install

tests

see test/README.md

note on 0.4.x

output of large result sets is slow under node 0.4. Recommend running under 0.6 where possible.