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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.
ReadMaking Many HTTP Requests Using Recursion
One of the most important functions for my TikTok bookmark app is the ability to import an entire list of liked videos. During the process of testing files for liked videos, I realized that longer lists (with thousands of videos) struggled to import all files in one attempt. After examining 150 videos or so, I started receiving error messages about the connect timing out. I fiddled with the asynchronous code I created (and upgraded the for loop I was using to an ES6 for...of loop in the process), but I continued to see the same error messages after a minute or so of processing HTTP get requests.
ReadUsing Data Uploaded From Text Files in Node/Express
Longtime users of TikTok will have probably liked hundreds, if not thousands, of videos on the app. It would be incredibly tedious for a user to select each video, click its share icon, copy a link, and then submit data its URL data. Thankfully, TikTok allows users to download all of their data, including their list of Liked videos. The user receives this information as a text file called Like List.txt.
ReadDeleting Multiple Documents In One Request With Hidden Form Input
Creating a router and a controller to delete a single video by ID was fairly straightforward. However, this method would give each video its own unique route where a user could then click to delete a video. This sounded pretty tedious, so it was important to me that users could select as many videos as they liked and then click a delete icon to remove videos from their collection of favorites.
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