How to cache API output (text and json)

[MojoPH]

Hi,
I have specific API outputs that are in text or json that i want cached on CF servers.

For example, if someone searched with keyword "eggs " on products, the URL is:

/api.php?get=products&q=eggs

Api would output JSON objects of all products matching “eggs”

I would like CF to cache the results so that my site need not query the DB and build the JSON everytime someone searches for the word “eggs”

Is this possible? (FREE account only too)

[fritex]

@MojoPH

Is this possible? (FREE account only too)

Maybe below posts could help?:

No cache on JSON

.json files are not cached by default, however you can configure a page rule. Your examples do not seem to refer to your own host behind Cloudflare though and so you wouldnt have control over that. Whats the actual link to your .json file?

JSON doesn't cache (even with explicit page rules)

Well, that is the intended behaviour. .json files are not cached by default. You’d need to explicitly configure this in your first rule.

JSON doesn't cache (even with explicit page rules)

If you want to both cache everything and ignore query string you’d either need to be on a plan which allows a custom cache key or set a custom cache key using workers. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/archive/recipes/vcl-conversion/controlling-the-cache/