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Web Scraping With JavaScript Using Axios and JSDom
It's been almost a year since I created a website whose primary purpose was to consume a Japanese idiom API and give users a new idiom (and its pronunciation) each time they visited in a new browser window. When I originally imagined a concept for this website, I wanted to offer users an idiom, its pronunciation, and its definition.
ReadFollowing URLs with Redirect Requests in Node.js with Follow Redirects
While building out my TikTok app, I encountered a problem that made storing and displaying data difficult: the TikTok API stopped allowing response requests from mobile TikTok links. When using the Copy Link function on the native TikTok app, the app produces a shortened URL.
ReadCreating a Japanese Idiom Web Application
I created a web application that would use two different APIs (one for the idioms, a separate one for the weather) to allow the user to start their day with a piece of wisdom and knowledge about the current weather conditions.
ReadUsing Session Storage for API Data
After fetching the idiom API from the server and adding it to the document, I realized I wanted the user to see the same idiom until they closed their browser. To accomplish this, I decided to use sessionStorage.
ReadWeather Backgrounds with the Open Weather Map API
Despite studying Japanese for nearly a decade now, I still struggle to understand and remember yojijukugo, or idioms comprised of four Chinese characters. For my next project, I decided it would be fun to build an app to start my day off with a different idiom. Aside from the idiom (and its pronunciation and definition), I wanted to add in a few other features for starting my day. Namely, I wanted to know the day, the date, the time, the temperature, and the current weather.
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