colorhunt/api/palette.js

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JavaScript

var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
// var app = express();
// var cors = require('cors');
// app.use(cors());
//app.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
module.exports = function (req, res) {
// res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
//
// Because I couldn't find a good source for colorpalette ids on colorhunt,
// the below function generates a random number from 0 - 10000 and sees if it matches
// a color palette code, and calls the function recursively if it doesn't.
//
// This means its usually making several calls before returning data.
//
function getColorJson(url) {
// Loads in colorhunt url via request
request(url, function(error, _, html) {
if(!error){
// Parses html via cheerioJS
var $ = cheerio.load(html);
var json = {
id: "",
code: "",
date: "",
likes: "",
c1: "",
c2: "",
c3: "",
c4: ""
};
var script = $('#jscode').next().html();
// Finds our string of data on the page
// -- or returns "-1" to itemerIndex if the random code guess doesn't work
var itemerIndex = script.search("itemer");
if (itemerIndex === -1) {
console.log(url + "didn't work.");
url = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000).toString();
getColorJson('http://colorhunt.co/c/' + url);
return;
}
var itemerString = script.substr(itemerIndex, itemerIndex + 100);
var itemer = itemerString.split("'");
//console.log(itemer);
json.id = itemer[1];
json.code = itemer[3];
json.date = itemer[5];
json.likes = itemer[7];
json.c1 = "#" + json.code.substring(0,6);
json.c2 = "#" + json.code.substring(6,12);
json.c3 = "#" + json.code.substring(12,18);
json.c4 = "#" + json.code.substring(18,24);
console.log("The code " + json.id + " worked!");
res.json(json);
return;
} else {
console.log("Error on request: ")
console.log(error);
}
})
}
// Generates first color code and initializes recursive function.
var url = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000).toString();
getColorJson('http://colorhunt.co/c/' + url);
};