asx-data/index.js

Australian Securities Exchange Data API Wrapper

var http = require("http");

var data = function (options, result, error) {
    options = options || {};

    options.interval = options.interval || 'daily';
    options.count = options.count || 1;

    if (!(this instanceof data)) {
        return new data({
            code: options.code,
            interval: options.interval,
            count: options.count
        }, result, error);
    }

    var path = 
        '/data/1/share/' + options.code + 
        '/prices?interval=' + options.interval + 
        '&count=' + options.count;

    var httpOptions = {
        host: 'data.asx.com.au',
        port: 80,
        path: path,
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        }
    }; 

    var req = http.request(httpOptions, function(res)
    {
        var output = '';        
        res.setEncoding('utf8');

        res.on('data', function (chunk) {
            output += chunk;
        });

        res.on('end', function() {
            var obj = JSON.parse(output);            
            result(res.statusCode, obj);
        });
    });

    req.on('error', function(err) {
        error(err);
    });

    req.end();

};

/**
 * @module
 * @type {data}
 */
module.exports = {
    data: data
};