jisho-sidekick/lib/jisho.js

Japanese reading sidekick integrating Jisho and Memrise

const _ = require('lodash')
const request = require('request-promise')

const API_ROOT = `http://jisho.org/api/v1/search/words`
const KANA_ALONE_TAG = `Usually written using kana alone`

function getSearchUrl(term, page=1) {
  return `${API_ROOT}?keyword=${encodeURIComponent(term)}&page=${page}`
}

function postProcessResults(results) {
  for (let result of results) {
    for (let sense of result.senses) {
      sense.kanaAlone = sense.tags.indexOf(KANA_ALONE_TAG) !== -1
    }
  }
  return results
}

function search(term) {
  return (
    request({uri: getSearchUrl(term), json: true})
    .then(verifyResponse)
    .then(postProcessResults)
  )
}

function verifyResponse(resp) {
  if (!resp.data) {
    console.log(require('util').inspect(resp))
    throw new Error('Jisho response invalid, likely a problem with the network')
  }
  return resp.data
}

module.exports = {
  search,
}