cats-generator

Simple promise-based npm library made to get cat images with custom text

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Install

npm install cats-generator

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Docs

Class — CatWithTextGenerator

• getImage() - Makes request to 'https://cataas.com/cat' and returns Promise<CatImage>.

Class — CatImage

• width - image width field.
• height - image height field.
• toBuffer() - Return cat image buffer.
• addText(text, textOptions) - Adds text to image and returns Promise<CatImage>.
• • text - string
• • textOptions - TextOptions

Enum — TextPosition

• CENTER, CENTER_LEFT, CENTER_RIGHT, TOP_CENTER, TOP_LEFT, TOP_RIGHT, BOTTOM_CENTER, BOTTOM_LEFT, BOTTOM_RIGHT, CUSTOM
• • When you use CUSTOM you must use customPositionCoords in TextOptions.

Interface — TextOptions

• position: TextPosition
• font: string
• size: number
• color?: string | CanvasGradient | CanvasPattern
• • Optional. Default: white
• outlined?: boolean
• • Optional. Default: false
• outlineColor?: string | CanvasGradient | CanvasPattern
• • Optional. Default: black
• outlineSize: number
• • Optional. Default: 7
• textPositionOffset: number,
• • Optional. Default: 10
• customPositionCoords: TextStartPoint
• • Mandatory with TextPosition.CUSTOM

Interface — TextStartPoint

• x: number
• y: number

Example Usage

const { CatWithTextGenerator, TextOptions, TextPosition } = require("cats-generator");
const { writeFileSync } =  require("fs");

async function main() {
    try {
        const catGenerator = new CatWithTextGenerator();
        const image = await catGenerator.getImage();
        const text = 'Hello World';
        const textOptions = {
            position: TextPosition.BOTTOM_CENTER,
            size: 64,
            font: 'Sans',
            outlined: true, 
            color: 'white',
        };
        const imageWithText = await image.addText(text, textOptions);
        const imageBuffer = imageWithText.toBuffer();
        writeFileSync('./file.png', imageBuffer);
        console.log('Image saved!');
    } catch(e) {
        console.error(e);
    }
}

main();