Sharpen Your Saw II

gistfile1.txt

var async = require("async");
var _ = require("lodash");
var key = "TZlKw4gd1qFQhA2CbMLa";
var urlBase = "http://thesaurus.altervista.org/service.php?language=en_US&output=json&key=" + key + "&word=";

var inputString = "may the force be with you";

var getSynonyms = function (word, callback) {
  request(urlBase + word, function (err, response, body) {
    if (err) {
      return callback(err);
    }
    var responseObj = JSON.parse(body).response;
    var allSynonyms = _.map(responseObj, function (responseItem) {
      return responseItem.list.synonyms.split("|");
    });

    callback(null, {
      word: word,
      synonyms: _.unique(_.flatten(allSynonyms))
    });
  });


};

async.mapSeries(inputString.split(" "), getSynonyms, function (err, results) {
  var sortedResults = _.sortBy(results, function (result) {
    return -1 * result.synonyms.length;
  });
  console.log(sortedResults[0].synonyms.length, sortedResults[0]);
});