famous-quotes

famous-quotes

An Express wrapper for the "Random Famous Quotes" API found on Mashape. Link: https://market.mashape.com/andruxnet/random-famous-quotes

The response body of the GET request to the endpoint will be an object with a quote and author property. See examples for more details.

You may use this for a "quote of the day", at least, that's what I use it for. Or perhaps you could have a button that generates a random quote when clicked. Keep in mind that there are likely rate limits for the API; this wrapper does not limit the number of requests you can make, so please do your own research if you plan to do something request intensive.

Usage

getQuoteMaker(key, options)

• key (String) The secret key provided by Mashape
• options (Object)
  • default (Object) The default quote to be shown, if the request fails, for some reason. Below are the relevant properties.
    • quote
    • author
• Returns (Object) Returns a quoteMaker object (see below).

quoteMaker.getRouter()

• Returns (Router) Returns an Express router to be used for middleware.

quoteMaker.genQuote(options)

• options (Object) Properties below.
  • type (String) The quote type. There are two options, the default, 'famous', and 'movies'.
  • count Integer The number of quotes to be returned, with a maximum limit of 100. Defaults to 1.

quoteMaker.getGenerator(refresh, options)

• refresh (Integer) The amount of delay, in milliseconds, between each .genQuote() call. Defaults to one day.
• options (Object) The options object to be passed to .genQuote().
• Returns (setInterval ID) Returns the setInterval ID of the interval that will call .genQuote() every X milliseconds;

Example

const DEFAULT_QUOTE = {
  quote: 'Don\'t let schooling interfere with your education.',
  author: 'Mark Twain'
};
const MASHAPE_KEY = 'SOME_KEY';
const express = require('express');
const quoteMaker = require('famous-quotes')(MASHAPE_KEY, DEFAULT_QUOTE);
const app = express();

// Regenerate a new quote every hour
quoteMaker.getGenerator(1000 * 60 * 60);
app.use('myendpoint', quoteMaker.getRouter());

And on client-side... (I'm using Angular, and omitted some steps; consider it an exercise for the reader to fill in the steps ;))

$http({
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'myendpoint'
}).then(function(res) {
  console.log('Quote: ' + res.data.quote);
  console.log('Author: ' + res.data.author);
}, function(err) {
  console.log(err);
});