dmmarmol/pesapi

Playground project for developing a basic API for webscraping using Node.Js with Async&Await

PES Database API

Using node.js

The main goal of this project is to support a JSON Rest API with data fetched from pesdb.net to allow different operations and manipulation of the data.

This project was indented to be a proof of concept involving web scrapping and many npm libraries to gather public data from a public website and then create a simple REST API to retrieve it.

References

• Scrapping the web with node.js
• Using Promise.all to resolve multiple request

Install

Clone this project and cd into it and run

If you have Yarn

yarn && yarn start 

If not, then classic npm install

npm install && npm run start

At this moment the gathered information should be placed inside an ./output directory and inside a sub directory with the corresponding version name. Eg.: ./output/v0.0.2/players_...