Developed a way to ask for the categories of 4chan

Author: Mirdrack

Diff for: app.js

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ var express = require('express');
 var path = require('path');
 var app = express();
 
-require('./routes.js')(app);
+var fourChanService = require('./services/fourChanService.js');
+require('./routes.js')(app, fourChanService);
 
 app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 80);
 app.set('views', './views');

Diff for: package.json

@@ -4,8 +4,15 @@
   "description": "A clone client of 4Chan website where the app display all categories and threads but you can makr threads in order to be monitored by the server side application to be downloading the images of marked threads.",
   "main": "app.js",
   "dependencies": {
+    "cheerio": "^0.19.0",
     "express": "^4.13.3",
-    "jade": "^1.11.0"
+    "htmlparser": "^1.7.7",
+    "jade": "^1.11.0",
+    "noodlejs": "^0.3.2",
+    "osmosis": "0.0.8",
+    "request": "^2.64.0",
+    "soupselect": "^0.2.0",
+    "x-ray": "^2.0.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {},
   "scripts": {

Diff for: routes.js

@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-module.exports = function (app) {
+module.exports = function (app, fourChanService) {
 
 	app.get('/', function (req, res) {
+		
+		fourChanService.getCategories(function (data) {
 
-		res.render('index.jade');
-	} );
+			res.render('index.jade', { categories : data });
+		}); 
+		
+	});
 };

Diff for: services/fourChanService.js

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+var fourChanService = {
+
+	getCategories : function (callback)
+	{
+		
+		var osmosis = require('osmosis');
+		osmosis.get('http://www.4chan.org/')
+			.set({
+		  		'categories': ['a.boardlink'],
+				'links': ['a.boardlink @href']
+		  	}) 
+		.data(function (results) {
+
+		    for(var cont = 0, categories = [], element = {}; cont < results.categories.length; cont++) {
+
+		    	element.name = results.categories[cont];
+		    	element.link = results.links[cont];
+		    	categories.push(element);
+		    	element = {};
+		    }
+		    categories.splice(-23, 23);
+		    callback(categories);
+		});
+
+
+		/*var noodle = require('noodlejs');
+		noodle.query({  
+		  url: 'http://www.4chan.org/',
+		  type: 'html',
+		  selector: 'a.boardlink',
+		  extract: 'href'
+		})
+		.then(function (data) {
+		  	console.log(typeof(data.results));
+			//data.results.splice(3 , 5, 'hola' );
+		  	console.log('========');
+		  	console.log(data.results);
+		  	console.log('========');
+		  	var keys = Object.keys(data.results);
+		  	console.log(keys);
+		});*/
+
+
+		/*var Xray = require('x-ray');
+		var x = Xray();
+
+		x('https://4chan.org/', {title:'.boardlink'})
+		(function (err, result) {
+			console.log(result)
+		});*/
+
+		/*[{
+			'title': '.boardlink a@title',
+		  	'href': '.boardlink a@href',
+		}]*/
+		
+
+	/*	var request = require("request");
+		var cheerio = require("cheerio");
+		var url = 'http://4chan.org/';
+		
+		request(url, function (error, response, body) {
+		if (!error) {
+			var $ = cheerio.load(body),
+				temperature = $('.boardlink').html();
+				
+				console.log("It’s " + temperature + " degrees Fahrenheit.");
+		} else {
+			console.log("We’ve encountered an error: " + error);
+		}
+	});*/
+
+		/*console.log('this.categories');
+		console.log(this.categories);
+		var data = {
+			categories : ['uno', 'dos']
+		};
+		return data;*/
+	}
+};
+
+module.exports = fourChanService;

Diff for: views/index.jade

@@ -3,4 +3,9 @@ extends layouts/default
 block content
 	div.jumbotron.text-center
 		h1 4Chan Monitor
-		p This gonna be awsome!!
+		p This gonna be awsome!!
+
+	div
+		each category in categories
+			div
+				a(href='#{category.link}') #{category.name}