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node-calais
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Open Calais SDK for node.js.
Install using npm:
$ npm install node-calais
const Calais = require('node-calais')
const calais = new Calais('<YOUR API KEY>')
const content = 'The Federal Reserve is the enemy of Ron Paul.'
calais.exec(content)
.then(res => console.log(JSON.stringify(res)))
.catch(err => console.error(err))
Run tests:
$ npm test
Tested with node.js v4.0+
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016
FAQs
Open Calais SDK for node.js
The npm package node-calais receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, node-calais popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-calais 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.
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