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leetcode-public-api
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leetcode-public-api
An unofficial public API for LeetCode with full type support and zero dependencies!
LeetCode Public API
An unofficial public API for LeetCode with full type support and zero dependencies!
📝 Table of Contents
🧐 About
I small package written in typescript to fetch public stats of a LeetCode profile. This API makes call to leetcode.com using built in fetch, so abusing it might lead to rate limiting your IP, and using it directly in browser may hit you with CORS.
🏁 Getting Started
Installing
Compatible with JavaScript and NodeJS >= 17.5 environments.
-
Using yarn
yarn add leetcode-public-api -
Using npm
npm i leetcode-public-api
Usage
-
Import
import {getLCAccount} from "leetcode-public-api" -
Use
const leetCodeAccount = await getLCAccount('username')
Example Response
{
status:200,
statusText:"OK",
data:{
"contestBadge": null,
"username": "husain3012",
"githubUrl": "https://github.com/husain3012",
"twitterUrl": null,
"linkedinUrl": null,
"profile": {
"ranking": 289606,
"userAvatar": "https://assets.leetcode.com/users/avatars/avatar_1682222071.png",
"realName": "Husain Shahid",
"aboutMe": "",
"school": null,
"websites": [
"husainshahidrao.com"
],
"countryName": null,
"company": null,
"jobTitle": null,
"skillTags": [],
"postViewCount": 81,
"postViewCountDiff": 0,
"reputation": 0,
"reputationDiff": 0,
"solutionCount": 4,
"solutionCountDiff": 0,
"categoryDiscussCount": 0,
"categoryDiscussCountDiff": 0
},
"activeBadge": {
"displayName": "Feb LeetCoding Challenge",
"icon": "/static/images/badges/dcc-2022-2.png"
},
"languageProblemCount": [
{
"languageName": "C++",
"problemsSolved": 226
},
{
"languageName": "Elixir",
"problemsSolved": 2
},
{
"languageName": "Python",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"languageName": "C",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"languageName": "Python3",
"problemsSolved": 1
}
],
"tagProblemCounts": {
"advanced": [
{
"tagName": "Dynamic Programming",
"tagSlug": "dynamic-programming",
"problemsSolved": 35
},
{
"tagName": "Backtracking",
"tagSlug": "backtracking",
"problemsSolved": 8
},
{
"tagName": "Monotonic Stack",
"tagSlug": "monotonic-stack",
"problemsSolved": 8
},
{
"tagName": "Divide and Conquer",
"tagSlug": "divide-and-conquer",
"problemsSolved": 7
},
{
"tagName": "Union Find",
"tagSlug": "union-find",
"problemsSolved": 7
},
{
"tagName": "Quickselect",
"tagSlug": "quickselect",
"problemsSolved": 2
},
{
"tagName": "Trie",
"tagSlug": "trie",
"problemsSolved": 2
},
{
"tagName": "Topological Sort",
"tagSlug": "topological-sort",
"problemsSolved": 2
},
{
"tagName": "Rolling Hash",
"tagSlug": "rolling-hash",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"tagName": "Bitmask",
"tagSlug": "bitmask",
"problemsSolved": 1
}
],
"intermediate": [
{
"tagName": "Hash Table",
"tagSlug": "hash-table",
"problemsSolved": 43
},
{
"tagName": "Math",
"tagSlug": "math",
"problemsSolved": 34
},
{
"tagName": "Binary Search",
"tagSlug": "binary-search",
"problemsSolved": 24
},
{
"tagName": "Depth-First Search",
"tagSlug": "depth-first-search",
"problemsSolved": 17
},
{
"tagName": "Greedy",
"tagSlug": "greedy",
"problemsSolved": 16
},
{
"tagName": "Breadth-First Search",
"tagSlug": "breadth-first-search",
"problemsSolved": 16
},
{
"tagName": "Tree",
"tagSlug": "tree",
"problemsSolved": 11
},
{
"tagName": "Bit Manipulation",
"tagSlug": "bit-manipulation",
"problemsSolved": 10
},
{
"tagName": "Binary Tree",
"tagSlug": "binary-tree",
"problemsSolved": 9
},
{
"tagName": "Graph",
"tagSlug": "graph",
"problemsSolved": 9
},
{
"tagName": "Sliding Window",
"tagSlug": "sliding-window",
"problemsSolved": 8
},
{
"tagName": "Recursion",
"tagSlug": "recursion",
"problemsSolved": 5
},
{
"tagName": "Design",
"tagSlug": "design",
"problemsSolved": 5
},
{
"tagName": "Ordered Set",
"tagSlug": "ordered-set",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"tagName": "Randomized",
"tagSlug": "randomized",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"tagName": "Iterator",
"tagSlug": "iterator",
"problemsSolved": 1
},
{
"tagName": "Brainteaser",
"tagSlug": "brainteaser",
"problemsSolved": 1
}
],
"fundamental": [
{
"tagName": "Array",
"tagSlug": "array",
"problemsSolved": 114
},
{
"tagName": "String",
"tagSlug": "string",
"problemsSolved": 51
},
{
"tagName": "Sorting",
"tagSlug": "sorting",
"problemsSolved": 31
},
{
"tagName": "Two Pointers",
"tagSlug": "two-pointers",
"problemsSolved": 30
},
{
"tagName": "Stack",
"tagSlug": "stack",
"problemsSolved": 20
},
{
"tagName": "Linked List",
"tagSlug": "linked-list",
"problemsSolved": 15
},
{
"tagName": "Matrix",
"tagSlug": "matrix",
"problemsSolved": 13
},
{
"tagName": "Simulation",
"tagSlug": "simulation",
"problemsSolved": 11
},
{
"tagName": "Queue",
"tagSlug": "queue",
"problemsSolved": 3
},
{
"tagName": "Enumeration",
"tagSlug": "enumeration",
"problemsSolved": 1
}
]
},
"userCalendar": {
"activeYears": [
2023,
2022,
2021
],
"streak": 17,
"totalActiveDays": 91,
"dccBadges": [],
"submissionCalendar": "{\"1672617600\": 4, \"1672876800\": 3, \"1673222400\": 5, \"1673395200\": 8, \"1673481600\": 7, \"1674259200\": 1, \"1674864000\": 1, \"1675036800\": 2, \"1675296000\": 14, \"1675382400\": 7, \"1675468800\": 5, \"1676678400\": 1, \"1677628800\": 3, \"1678320000\": 2, \"1678406400\": 6, \"1678492800\": 1, \"1678838400\": 2, \"1679356800\": 10, \"1679788800\": 13, \"1679875200\": 7, \"1680048000\": 5, \"1680825600\": 3, \"1680998400\": 13, \"1681257600\": 2, \"1681430400\": 5, \"1681516800\": 1, \"1681603200\": 8, \"1681689600\": 1, \"1681948800\": 7, \"1682035200\": 28, \"1682121600\": 12, \"1682208000\": 17, \"1682294400\": 4, \"1682380800\": 16, \"1682467200\": 4, \"1682553600\": 1, \"1682640000\": 2, \"1682726400\": 1, \"1682812800\": 3, \"1682899200\": 4, \"1682985600\": 3, \"1683072000\": 1, \"1683158400\": 2, \"1683244800\": 2, \"1683331200\": 1, \"1684281600\": 1, \"1685750400\": 7, \"1685836800\": 9, \"1685923200\": 14, \"1686009600\": 9, \"1686096000\": 12, \"1686182400\": 16, \"1686268800\": 9, \"1686355200\": 7, \"1655078400\": 1, \"1655337600\": 3, \"1655424000\": 7, \"1655510400\": 18, \"1655596800\": 7, \"1655683200\": 1, \"1655856000\": 7, \"1655942400\": 3, \"1656115200\": 15, \"1656288000\": 1, \"1656720000\": 1, \"1657843200\": 5, \"1664064000\": 3, \"1664409600\": 5, \"1664496000\": 13, \"1664582400\": 3, \"1665360000\": 3, \"1665446400\": 4, \"1668038400\": 8, \"1668124800\": 11, \"1668384000\": 3, \"1668470400\": 1, \"1668556800\": 8, \"1668643200\": 2, \"1668729600\": 3, \"1668816000\": 1, \"1668902400\": 16, \"1668988800\": 9, \"1669075200\": 1, \"1669161600\": 2, \"1669248000\": 2, \"1669334400\": 1, \"1669420800\": 1, \"1670284800\": 19, \"1670371200\": 1, \"1670630400\": 1, \"1672185600\": 3}"
},
"badges": [
{
"id": "1456837",
"name": "Annual Badge",
"shortName": "100 Days Badge 2022",
"displayName": "100 Days Badge 2022",
"icon": "https://leetcode.com/static/images/badges/2022/lg/2022-annual-100.png",
"hoverText": "100 Days Badge 2022",
"medal": {
"slug": "100-days-badge-2022",
"config": {
"iconGif": "https://leetcode.com/static/images/badges/2022/gif/2022-annual-100.gif",
"iconGifBackground": "https://assets.leetcode.com/static_assets/others/badge-background.png"
}
},
"creationDate": "2023-01-01",
"category": "COMPETITION"
},
{
"id": "615138",
"name": "Daily Coding Challenge",
"shortName": "Feb Badge",
"displayName": "Feb LeetCoding Challenge",
"icon": "/static/images/badges/dcc-2022-2.png",
"hoverText": "Feb LeetCoding Challenge",
"medal": {
"slug": "dcc-february-2022",
"config": {
"iconGif": "https://leetcode.com/static/images/badges/2022/gif/2022-02.gif",
"iconGifBackground": "https://assets.leetcode.com/static_assets/others/badge-background.png"
}
},
"creationDate": "2022-02-28",
"category": "DCC"
}
],
"upcomingBadges": [
{
"name": "Jun LeetCoding Challenge",
"icon": "/static/images/badges/dcc-2023-6.png",
"progress": 26
}
],
"problemsSolvedBeatsStats": [
{
"difficulty": "Easy",
"percentage": 84.35
},
{
"difficulty": "Medium",
"percentage": 88.69
},
{
"difficulty": "Hard",
"percentage": 81.17
}
],
"submitStatsGlobal": {
"acSubmissionNum": [
{
"difficulty": "All",
"count": 215
},
{
"difficulty": "Easy",
"count": 69
},
{
"difficulty": "Medium",
"count": 122
},
{
"difficulty": "Hard",
"count": 24
}
]
},
"contestAttended": 4,
"contestRating": 1481,
"contestRanking": 194463
}
}
Functions
| Function | Type | Input | Output | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fetchAccount | async | username:string | {status:number, statusText:string, data:string|null} | Fetches the HTML for a profile page |
| parseAccount | sync | profile_html:string | ILeetCodeUser | Parses and extracts info from the HTML of a profile |
| getLCAccount | async | username:string | {status:number, statusText:string, data:ILeetCodeUser|null} | Top level function, uses fetchAccount with parseAccount to get the profile info |
Keywords
FAQs
An unofficial public API for LeetCode with full type support and zero dependencies!
The npm package leetcode-public-api receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, leetcode-public-api popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that leetcode-public-api demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 11 Jun 2023
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