nautiljon-scraper-mod/lib/search.js

Nautiljon's anime and manga website scraping tool

const { req }           = require("./api/request"),
      { searchScraper } = require("./api/scraper"),
      urlParser         = require("./api/urlParser"),
      data              = require("./utils/data"),
      utils             = require("./utils/utils");
/**
 * Assign the project to an employee.
 * @param {string} query - The search query.
 * @param {string} [genre = anime] - The type of the query (anime or manga).
 * @param {string} [totalLength = 15] - The total length of the results array.
 * @param {object} options - Search options
 */
module.exports = async (query, genre = 'anime', totalLength = 15, options) => {

    //variables
    let url, page, results;

    //====================================================================
    //  checks
    //
    if (!query && query !== "") return utils.error("No query provided for the search");     //check the query
    else if (typeof(query) !== 'string') return utils.error("Query must be a string");      
    //
    if (!data.genres.map(e => e.name).includes(genre.toLowerCase?.())) return utils.error("Genre is invalid (must be either 'anime' or 'manga')"); //check for the genre
    //
    if (typeof(totalLength) !== 'number') { //check the totalLength and set a limit
        if (typeof(totalLength) == 'object') { //swap the options and totalLength args
            let temp = totalLength;
            totalLength = typeof(options) == 'number' ? options : 15;
            options = temp;
        }
        else utils.error("totalLength must be an integer")
    }
    if (totalLength > 50) totalLength = 50;
    //
    //====================================================================

    //get the html of the page
    url = urlParser.parse(query, genre, options);
    page = await req(url);

    //scrape the html
    results = searchScraper(page, genre, totalLength);

    return results;

}