sw-api-js

Simple Star Wars API Javascript wrapper for Node and the browser.

• Supports search
• Uses native ES6 Promises
• Node v4+
• Includes polyfill for older browsers

Getting started

Node

Install with npm:

// TO-DO: module to be published

Include the module (or import swapi from 'sw-api-js' in ES6):

var swapi = require('sw-api-js');

Browser

Download the browserified script and add with script tag:

 <script src="path/to/file/swapi.browser.js"></script>

Usage

This wrapper is designed to be simple and flexible. All endpoints can be passed through as parameters to swapi() and will return an object or array of objects. Use as promise:

swapi('your-parameter-here').then( function(data) {
        // ... Do the things
    }).catch( function(err) {
        // ... Handle errors
    });

For example, calling the function with a full URL (see other options below):

swapi('http://swapi.co/api/people/11').then(...)

Will return the data object:

{
    "name": "Anakin Skywalker", 
    "height": "188", 
    "mass": "84", 
    "hair_color": "blond", 
    "skin_color": "fair", 
    "eye_color": "blue", 
    "birth_year": "41.9BBY", 
    "gender": "male", 
    "homeworld": "http://swapi.co/api/planets/1/", 
    "films": [
        "http://swapi.co/api/films/5/", 
        "http://swapi.co/api/films/4/", 
        "http://swapi.co/api/films/6/"
    ], 
    "species": [
        "http://swapi.co/api/species/1/"
    ], 
    "vehicles": [
        "http://swapi.co/api/vehicles/44/", 
        "http://swapi.co/api/vehicles/46/"
    ], 
    "starships": [
        "http://swapi.co/api/starships/59/", 
        "http://swapi.co/api/starships/65/", 
        "http://swapi.co/api/starships/39/"
    ], 
    "created": "2014-12-10T16:20:44.310000Z", 
    "edited": "2014-12-20T21:17:50.327000Z", 
    "url": "http://swapi.co/api/people/11/"
}

Options

The parameter options are listed below:

URL

Get resource from full URL:

swapi('http://swapi.co/api/people/11').then(...)

All

Get all entries from a resource (available resources are films, people, planets, species, starships and vehicles) with the resource parameter:

swapi('people').then(...)

Single

Add an ID parameter to get a single entry from a resource:

swapi('people', 1).then(...)

Paged

Add 'paged' parameter to get paginated entries by type. The ID value is the page number to call. The endpoint URLs to the next/previous page will be in the data.next and data.previous fields.

swapi('people', 1, 'paged').then(...)

Search

To get resource entries by name instead of ID (useful!) use a string as the value to call the SWAPI search feature (full documentation here). You can get entries by their full name:

swapi('people', 'Anakin Skywalker').then(...)

Or a partial string to return all matches:

swapi('people', 'anakin').then(...)

Root

Calling the function with no parameters will default to the base URL and return a list of all available resources.

swapi().then(...)

Response:

{
    "films": "http://swapi.co/api/films/",
    "people": "http://swapi.co/api/people/",
    "planets": "http://swapi.co/api/planets/",
    "species": "http://swapi.co/api/species/",
    "starships": "http://swapi.co/api/starships/",
    "vehicles": "http://swapi.co/api/vehicles/"
}

Tests

npm test

To-Do

Additional browser testing