Kitsu JSON API

This is a wrapper for the JSON API provided by Kitsu for Node.js. Full documentation can be found on their website.

How to get started

Install with NPM

npm i kitsu-json-api --save

Import module to your js file

import KitsuApi from 'kitsu-json-api';

or

const KitsuApi =  require('kitsu-json-api');

then

let kitsuApi =  new KitsuApi();

Methods/Functions

execute()

Execution method for this wrapper API. You must call this to run the query/api call to kitsu! This method will return a promise with the response from kitsu. Kitsu response is modeled as

 {
   data: [{
      // object attributes
     }]
 }

query(keyword)

First method you need to call to properly call the API. The query function takes in a parameter that is a category the API allows you to query. For example if you want to query for animes you would do

 kitsuApi.query('anime')

Check here to see which categories you can query.

paginationOffset(number)

Sets the offset for pagination when receiving data.

paginationLimit(number)

Sets the limit for pagination when receiving data.

filter({Array.<{ filterKey: string, filterValue: string[], }>})

Allows you to [filter the category you](https://kitsu.docs.apiary.io/#introduction/json-api/filtering-and-search] query based on attributes of that category.) Check here to find what attributes the category has.

sort([ attributes ])

This methods takes in an array of flags and sorts based off the flags given by Kitsu. I haven't found all of them but some are specified in the documentation.

includes([ relationships ])

"You can include related resources with include=[relationship]. You can also specify successive relationships using a .. A comma-delimited list can be used to request multiple relationships."

sparse(fieldKey, [ fieldValues ])

"You can request a resource to only return a specific set of fields in its response. For example, to only receive a user's name and creation date: (e.g /users?fields[users]=name,createdAt)"

Example

Async/Await

  let resp = await kitsuApi
    .query('anime') // anime category
    .filter([
      {
        key: 'season',
        value: ['winter', 'spring'] // filter by winter and spring
      },
      {
        key: 'seasonYear',  // filter by year 2017
        value: ['2017']
      }
    ])
    .paginationLimit(10) // set limit
    .paginationOffset(2) // set offset
    .sort(['followersCount', 'followingCount']) // sort by follower count and following count
    .execute(); // execute the query

or

Promises

kitsuApi
  .query('anime') // anime category
  .filter([
    {
      key: 'season',
      value: ['winter', 'spring'] // filter by winter and spring
    },
    {
      key: 'seasonYear', // filter by year 2017
      value: ['2017']
    }
  ])
  .paginationLimit(10) // set limit
  .paginationOffset(2) // set offset
  .sort(['followersCount', 'followingCount']) // sort by follower count and following count
  .execute().then(resp => {
    // do something with json
  });