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July 5, 2019 03:50
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Asynchronous recursive function that loops through all pages of results. There's a delay because of the large number of entities in the response, so you'll see my comment about what to add if you don't want to wait.
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const axios = require('axios'); | |
const util = require('util'); | |
const getEntity = async (page) => { | |
try { | |
let options = {}; | |
options.method = "GET"; | |
options.url = 'https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon'; | |
options.headers = {}; | |
options.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'; | |
options.headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'; | |
options.params = {}; | |
options.params.limit = 60; | |
options.params.offset = 60 * page; | |
options.json = true; | |
let response = await axios(options); | |
if (response.status === 200) { | |
let body = response.data.results; | |
return body; | |
} else { | |
throw new Error (response.body); | |
} | |
} | |
catch (e) { | |
console.log("Error getEntity:", util.inspect(e, {showHidden: false, depth: null})); | |
throw new Error (e); | |
} | |
} | |
let recursive = async (entity = [], i = 1) => { | |
try { | |
let response = await getEntity(i); | |
if (response.length === 0) { // add || i > 2 to get 3 pages if you don't want to wait a while | |
return entity || []; | |
} else { | |
entity = await entity.concat(response); | |
i++; | |
return await recursive(entity, i); | |
} | |
} catch (e) { | |
console.log("Recursive error:", util.inspect(e, {showHidden: false, depth: null})); | |
throw new Error (e); | |
} | |
}; | |
async function main () { | |
try { | |
let response = await recursive(); | |
console.log("response:", response) | |
return response; | |
} catch (e) { | |
console.log("Main function error:", util.inspect(e, {showHidden: false, depth: null})); | |
throw new Error(e); | |
} | |
} | |
main() | |
module.exports = main; |
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