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gender-api-client

v1.1.2

Published

Guess the gender for a given name. Uses the gender-api.com API.

Downloads

11

Readme

gender-api-client

Get the gender for any given name. This is a client for the gender-api.com API.

Usage

Really simple:

var gender = require('gender-api-client')

gender('Max', function(err, gender) {
  if (err) return console.err(error)

  console.log('The gender is: ' + gender) // male
})

Querying an email address

Instead of a name you can also provide an email address and gender-api.com will try to read any names from it.

var gender = require('gender-api-client')

gender('[email protected]', function(err, gender) {
  if (err) return console.err(error)

  console.log('The gender is: ' + gender) // male
})

A list of names

It is also possible to provide an array of names instead of only one. You will then get an object with all the names as keys and the genders as value back.

var gender = require('gender-api-client')

gender(['Max', 'Lisa'], function(err, genders) {
  if (err) return console.err(error)

  console.log('The gender of Lisa is: ' + genders['lisa'])
})

Additional options

There are a few additional options that you can provide:

  • key: An API key
  • ip: This is to determine from where a user is
  • country: Names can have different genders in different countries
  • language: Names can have different genders in different languages

Example:

var gender = require('gender-api-client')

gender('Andrea', { country: 'Germany' }, function(err, gender) {
  if (err) return console.err(error)

  console.log('The gender is: ' + gender) // Andrea is female in Germany...
})

gender('Andrea', { country: 'Italy' }, function(err, gender) {
  if (err) return console.err(error)

  console.log('The gender is: ' + gender) // ...but male in Italy
})

API Limitiations

Without using a key you can run 50 requests a day. By registering to their service (for free) you can use 1000 requests a month.

If you need to do more you can buy additional requests.

Running the tests

npm test

(Keep in mind that this does actual requests to the API, especially if you are not registered)