From 51b54852dcf617c6131376a469c537ab6b8326e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zed <zedeus@pm.me>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 05:15:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add preliminary support for nitter-proxy

---
 nitter.example.conf |  1 +
 src/apiutils.nim    | 13 ++++++++++++-
 src/config.nim      |  1 +
 src/nitter.nim      |  1 +
 src/types.nim       |  1 +
 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nitter.example.conf b/nitter.example.conf
index dfdaf50..7e4c846 100644
--- a/nitter.example.conf
+++ b/nitter.example.conf
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ enableRSS = true  # set this to false to disable RSS feeds
 enableDebug = false  # enable request logs and debug endpoints (/.sessions)
 proxy = ""  # http/https url, SOCKS proxies are not supported
 proxyAuth = ""
+apiProxy = "" # nitter-proxy host, e.g. localhost:7000
 disableTid = false # enable this if cookie-based auth is failing
 
 # Change default preferences here, see src/prefs_impl.nim for a complete list
diff --git a/src/apiutils.nim b/src/apiutils.nim
index 7a49e3e..ddb5027 100644
--- a/src/apiutils.nim
+++ b/src/apiutils.nim
@@ -13,10 +13,17 @@ const
 var 
   pool: HttpPool
   disableTid: bool
+  apiProxy: string
 
 proc setDisableTid*(disable: bool) =
   disableTid = disable
 
+proc setApiProxy*(url: string) =
+  if url.len > 0:
+    apiProxy = url.strip(chars={'/'}) & "/"
+    if "http" notin apiProxy:
+      apiProxy = "http://" & apiProxy
+
 proc toUrl(req: ApiReq; sessionKind: SessionKind): Uri =
   case sessionKind
   of oauth:  
@@ -99,7 +106,11 @@ template fetchImpl(result, fetchBody) {.dirty.} =
     var resp: AsyncResponse
     pool.use(await genHeaders(session, url)):
       template getContent =
-        resp = await c.get($url)
+        # TODO: this is a temporary simple implementation
+        if apiProxy.len > 0:
+          resp = await c.get(($url).replace("https://", apiProxy))
+        else:
+          resp = await c.get($url)
         result = await resp.body
 
       getContent()
diff --git a/src/config.nim b/src/config.nim
index 571508b..2b38d86 100644
--- a/src/config.nim
+++ b/src/config.nim
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ proc getConfig*(path: string): (Config, parseCfg.Config) =
     enableDebug: cfg.get("Config", "enableDebug", false),
     proxy: cfg.get("Config", "proxy", ""),
     proxyAuth: cfg.get("Config", "proxyAuth", ""),
+    apiProxy: cfg.get("Config", "apiProxy", ""),
     disableTid: cfg.get("Config", "disableTid", false)
   )
 
diff --git a/src/nitter.nim b/src/nitter.nim
index e6d66ab..91a3a9f 100644
--- a/src/nitter.nim
+++ b/src/nitter.nim
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ setHmacKey(cfg.hmacKey)
 setProxyEncoding(cfg.base64Media)
 setMaxHttpConns(cfg.httpMaxConns)
 setHttpProxy(cfg.proxy, cfg.proxyAuth)
+setApiProxy(cfg.apiProxy)
 setDisableTid(cfg.disableTid)
 initAboutPage(cfg.staticDir)
 
diff --git a/src/types.nim b/src/types.nim
index 815e223..c994148 100644
--- a/src/types.nim
+++ b/src/types.nim
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ type
     enableDebug*: bool
     proxy*: string
     proxyAuth*: string
+    apiProxy*: string
     disableTid*: bool
 
     rssCacheTime*: int