Compare Word Documents using Node.js REST API

compare-word-documents-using-nodejs-rest-api.js

// Step 1: Import the GroupDocs.Comparison.Cloud module
const comparison_cloud = require("groupdocs-comparison-cloud");

// Step 2: Define your API credentials
const MyAppKey = "your-app-key";
const MyAppSid = "your-app-sid";

// Step 3: Initialize the CompareApi with API credentials
const compareApi = comparison_cloud.CompareApi.fromKeys(MyAppKey, MyAppSid);

// Step 4: Compare two Word (DOCX) documents
(async () => {
    try {
        // Define source and target files in cloud storage
        const sourceFile = new comparison_cloud.FileInfo();
        sourceFile.filePath = "SampleFiles/source.docx";
        
        const targetFile = new comparison_cloud.FileInfo();
        targetFile.filePath = "SampleFiles/target.docx";

        // Set up comparison options
        const options = new comparison_cloud.ComparisonOptions();
        options.sourceFile = sourceFile;
        options.targetFiles = [targetFile];
        options.outputPath = "comparison/result.docx"; // Output file path

        // Create a comparison request
        const request = new comparison_cloud.ComparisonsRequest(options);

        // Perform the document comparison
        const response = await compareApi.comparisons(request);

    } catch (error) {
        console.error("Error during file comparison:", error.message);
    }
})();