How can I get json from an API url on node.js?

Question

So I'm trying to get text from a URL, it is an api url but it doesn't have any special arguments, I can use a static link. So if I put the link into the browser, its a blank page with just this text:

{"id":"hFXuavIS2Fu5TJs9WC9M-ylckZ-o4b21inxr5h8axKtT1HSH","accountId":"TIIQ3c3YnJc96-p4ASIt7spCeICawEWiBJKwwDYDm0WUP23TlGoum2cc","puuid":"I5Lb36kGyhZTq3ypf1fqh6tk3p3xVA8-l-6_EDA4a9imdXm_uXAvVs-Prc8hkRoKzGVT0vr55kZ1lQ","name":"CH0G4TH","profileIconId":949,"revisionDate":1588735966000,"summonerLevel":49}

Or different depending on the username.

I've tried using jquery for node, but it needs jsdom and I cannot get it to work at all, I get an error of Error: Cannot find module './jsdom/living/generated/utils.js' .

And using XMLHttpRequest, I don't get it. Sites show for calling for something specific inside the json, but I don't want that, just the whole thing, so skipping that and going directly to.send, it returns undefined.

This is what I've copied down from a site:

var XMLHttpRequest = require("xmlhttprequest").XMLHttpRequest;
        var getJSON = function(url) {

            var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.open('GET', url, true);
            xhr.responseType = 'json';

            //(xhr.onload removed here because it was used for returning a callback, which I don't need.)

            xhr.send();
        }
        console.log(getJSON('url'))

And of course it returns undefined.

So I don't know, I'm not a coder, so I'm confused out of my head here. I'm sorry if this is really basic and i'm just being retarded.

Answer 1

I'm going to assume that this is riot games API from the json you provided (CH0G4TH, SummonerID).

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There are quite a lot of library's/modules that you can use for riotsAPI but I would suggest: LeagueJS (a lot of other ones are garbage). since you said that you are not a coder I would suggest you use this rather then figuring it out yourself, makes it a lot easier.

Note

You will need a riot-api key which you can get from this link:

https://developer.riotgames.com/

Example Code:

 const LeagueJS = require('leaguejs'); // Here you should put your RGAPI code const leagueJs = new LeagueJS("RGAPI-SylasReallyBeBrokenRn"); // I like to create a region variable (makes it easier to change later on) const region = "oce" // although you dont need to have a user variable I will be using one for example purposes const user = "AIIChat" // Here I can get entries by name. It returns a body which I will log leagueJs.Summoner.gettingByName(user, region).then(user => { console.log(user) }) // Returns {......}

Endpoints:

( they dont really have docs)

• ChampionEndPoint

   - gettingRotations

• ChampionMasteryEndpoint

   - gettingBySummoner - gettingScoresBySummoner

• LeagueEndpoint

   - gettingChallengerLeague - gettingMasterLeague - gettingGrandMasterLeague - gettingLeagueById - gettingEntriesForSummonerId - gettingLeagueEntriesForSummonerId - gettingEntries

• LolStatusEndpoint

   - gettingShardData

• MatchEndpoint

   - gettingById - gettingTimelineById - gettingListByAccount - gettingListByAccountWithoutPagination - gettingRecentListByAccount - gettingIdsByTournament - gettingByIdForTournament

• SpectatorEndpoint

   - gettingActiveGame - gettingFeaturedGames

• SummonerEndpoint

   - gettingByName - gettingByAccount - gettingById - gettingByPUUID