quizlet-terms-api/index.js

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const http = require('axios'); 
const { parse } = require('node-html-parser'); 

const q_set = async (url , callback) => { 
    try { 
// Derived from Stack Overflow        
    const headers = {
         'accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3',
         'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
         'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
         'cache-control': 'max-age=0',
         'cookie': 'yourcookie',
         'sec-fetch-mode': 'navigate',
         'sec-fetch-site': 'none',
         'sec-fetch-user': '?1',
         'upgrade-insecure-requests': '1',
         'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12239.92.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.136 Safari/537.36',
       }
         const raw_set = (await http.get(url, headers)).data;    
         const root = parse(raw_set); 

         const getText = selector => { 
              return root.querySelector(selector).childNodes[0]._rawText
         }


         const qArray = new Array();      
         const qRoot = root.querySelector('.SetPageTerms-termsList');
             
               
                  for (let i = 0; i < qRoot.parentNode.childNodes[1].childNodes.length; i++) { 
                        qArray.push({
                              term: qRoot.parentNode.childNodes[1].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]._rawText, 
                              definition: qRoot.parentNode.childNodes[1].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]._rawText
                        })
                  }

            if (callback) { 
                callback();
            }

            return { 
                title: `${getText('title')}`, 
                author: `${getText('.UserLink-username')}`, 
                cards: qArray
            }

    }     
    catch (e) { 
        console.log('Cannot Fetch the Quizlet Cards!');
        console.error(e);
    }
}

module.exports = q_set;