cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com not working (503). What else can I try?

Question

I am trying to send a get request to the Wikipedia API. I am sending the request form a angular frontend so i'm trying to use the Heroku CORS Anywhere endpoint to avoid CORS issues. For some reason, I'm still getting a 503 response saying no access-control-allow-origin header is present on the requested resource. Any idea why this would happen/what else I can try?

My code:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response, } from '@angular/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';



@Injectable()
export class RestService {
    API_URL: string = 'https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/';

  constructor(private http: Http) { }

  public getRandomArticle() : Observable<any> {
        return this.http.get(`${this.API_URL}Special:Random`)
        .map((res: Response) => res.json())
        .catch((err: any) => Observable.throw(err || 'server error'));
  }

}

Answer 1

You can deploy a CORS Anywhere server to Heroku in just 2-3 minutes, with 5 commands:

git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master

After running those commands, you’ll end up with your own CORS Anywhere proxy running at, e.g. https://cryptic-headland-94862.herokuapp.com/. So then instead of prefixing your request URL with https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com, prefix it with your proxy’s URL.

Answer 2

In response to this I wanted to give a more detailed response for Windows users:

Windows Requried Items

• Create Heroku account (heroku.com) Install the Heroku CLI (e.g. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-command-line) Install Git (e.g. https://gitforwindows.org/) Install npm tools (e.g. https://nodejs.org/en/download/)

After everything above is done, issue the following commands

Open a new terminal, then:

heroku login
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere.git
cd cors-anywhere/
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master

It will process and update/upload and you will get a app URL:

https://some-name-giveng.herokuapp.com/