Access the Fantasy Football Premier League API using Node.js

fetchAllPlayers.js

var fplFetch     = require('./fplFetch.js'),
    PLAYER_COUNT = 590; 

//
// Fetch All Players
//

for(var i = 0; i < PLAYER_COUNT; i++) {
  fplStat( i, function(data) {
    console.log('Player data:' ,data);
  });
}

fplFetch.js

var http = require('http');

//
// Constants
//

var PLAYER_URL = "http://fantasy.premierleague.com/web/api/elements/";

//
// Modules
//

var fplFetch = function( ID, cb ) {

  http.get( PLAYER_URL + ID + "/"  , function(res) {
    var body = '';

    res.on('data', function(chunk) { 
      if( res.statusCode != 404 )  body += chunk; 
    });

    res.on('end', function() {
      if(!body.length) return console.log( PLAYER_URL + ID  , body.length   );
      var data = JSON.parse(body);
      data._id = data.id;
      cb( data );
    });

  }).on('error', function(e) {
    console.log("Got error: ", e);
  });

}

module.exports = fplFetch;