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Get Aperture

Aperture is an implementation of L402s as a reverse HTTP proxy.

Aperture is a reverse proxy that acts as a payment and authentication gateway for Lightning Network powered APIs. It can handle gRPC requests over HTTP/2 as well as REST over HTTP/1 and 2.
Aperture receives incoming connections, verifies the validity of the L402 and either forwards the request to the appropriate end point, or obtains a Macaroon and sends it together with a Lightning invoice and the HTTP status code 402 Payment Required.
Aperture is currently used in production in Lightning Loop and Pool.
Install Aperture
Requirements: go 1.19 or later
git clone https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture.git
cd aperture
make install
Configure Aperture
mkdir ~/.aperture
cp sample-conf.yaml ~/.aperture/aperture.yaml
By default Aperture uses port 8081. This port needs to be reachable from the outside.
Aperture will create a TLS key and self-signed certificate. To run Aperture in production, it will need a valid TLS certificate for the domain it is running on.
Run Aperture
To run Aperture, simply run the following command.
aperture
L402 demo
A demonstration of L402 can be found at https://lsat-playground-bucko.vercel.app/ (Testnet version here)
Here you can go through the process of minting a Macaroon, turning it into an L402, restricting and validating it as well as see code snippets.
​See how the client interceptor is coded in Aperture​
Watch: Using Aperture

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