famousbirthdays

node-famousbirthdays

Wrapper around grabbing and parsing FamousBirthdays website.

How to use

const famousBirthdays = require("famousbirthdays");

famousBirthdays(new Date()) // Default is just new Date(). (aka today)
    .then(result=>{
        ///etc
    })

Response

Will be an array of objects consisting of name, age, occuptation, and a link to their page. The array is limited to a length of 15. If the person is no longer alive, age will simply be undefined (oof).

Example

[ { name: 'Johnny Depp',
    age: '56',
    occupation: 'Movie Actor',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/johnny-depp.html' },
  { name: 'Tanya Burr',
    age: '30',
    occupation: 'TV Actress',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/tanya-burr.html' },
  { name: 'Natalie Portman',
    age: '38',
    occupation: 'Movie Actress',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/natalie-portman.html' },
  { name: 'Stassiebaby',
    age: '22',
    occupation: 'Instagram Star',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/anastasia-karanikolaou.html' },
  { name: 'Laurie Hernandez',
    age: '19',
    occupation: 'Gymnast',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/laurie-hernandez.html' },
  { name: 'Michael J. Fox',
    age: '58',
    occupation: 'Movie Actor',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/michael-j-fox.html' },
  { name: 'Zac Vran',
    age: '23',
    occupation: 'Dancer',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/zac-vran.html' },
  { name: 'Xavier Serrano',
    age: '26',
    occupation: 'Model',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/xavier-serrano.html' },
  { name: 'Mae Whitman',
    age: '31',
    occupation: 'TV Actress',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/mae-whitman.html' },
  { name: 'Matthew Bellamy',
    age: '41',
    occupation: 'Rock Singer',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/matthew-bellamy.html' },
  { name: 'OMGItsBirdman',
    age: '40',
    occupation: 'YouTube Star',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/omgitsbirdman.html' },
  { name: 'Rafi Fine',
    age: '36',
    occupation: 'YouTube Star',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/rafi-fine.html' },
  { name: 'Anna Cunningham (2002-2019)',
    age: undefined,
    occupation: 'TikTok Star',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/anna-cunningham.html' },
  { name: 'Sonam Kapoor',
    age: '34',
    occupation: 'Movie Actress',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/sonam-kapoor.html' },
  { name: 'Jocelyn Macnab',
    age: '14',
    occupation: 'TV Actress',
    link: 'https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/jocelyn-macnab.html' } ]

Future Plans

• Giving famous persons a dedicated class
• Fetching specific people
• Linking those two first ones together
• Probably more that I can't think of