fb-ninja
Makes batch requests to facebook API an easy task for you
Features
- Can handle a lot of API calls by split and defer them
- Accept callbacks
before
,after
,afterEach
,beforeEach
- Lightweight and fast
Install
npm install --save fb-ninja
Get started
const ninja = // define what you need for every requestconst request = method: "get" api: "me/accounts" // top level access tokenconst options = accessToken: processenvACCESS_TOKEN // get all result in one place as well as result per request// place as many requests as you want
Arguments
Request
It's the first parameter. All of them reffers to the api call itself.
Message or link are required. It's part of facebook field itself.
Required | Key | Descripiton | Type | Default |
---|---|---|---|---|
yes | accessToken |
Low level access token | String |
|
yes | message |
Message or link are required |
String |
|
no | link |
Message or link are required |
String |
|
no | method |
Low level method | String |
GET |
Options
it's the second parameter
Required | Key | Descripiton | Type | Default |
---|---|---|---|---|
yes | accessToken |
Top level access token | String |
"" |
no | method |
Top level method (POST in batch requests always) |
String |
POST |
no | api |
Top level api ("" in batch requests always) |
String |
"" |
no | includeHeaders |
include headers in response or not | Boolean |
false |
no | appId |
Top level facebook application ID | null |
|
no | timeout |
Amount of time between batch requests | ms |
60000 |
no | before |
Before first loop | Function |
null |
no | after |
After last loop | Function |
null |
no | beforeEach |
Before each loop | Function |
null |
no | afterEach |
After each loop | Function |
null |
no | retry |
Retry canceled requests? | Boolean |
true |
Tests
First of all make sure you have installed dev dependencies:
npm install
To run tests you should make file at the root folder facebook.json
and put there expected
expected by you information that you can get fromFacebook Graph API Explorer
.
Then run
npm test