Example REST API written in Node.js

This service receives list of URLs and returns PDF file with stats of most repeated words in the pages.

Download the project and run npm install.

To change default settings, copy config.default.js to config.local.js and edit the second.

Start the service with command npm start.

Requests should be made from AJAX to the URL /api/wordstats/ using POST method in application/x-www-form-urlencoded format.

URLs should be passed in url params. Example request:

url=http://example.com&url=http://example.net&url=http://example.org

Optional request params:

• showcount: show words count.
• nocache: ignore cache, generate new PDF file.
• fontsize: override font size. Default 7pt. Any CSS dimensions accepted.
• redirect: Redirect to PDF file instead of JSON response.

By default response is in JSON format. Example response:

    {
        "pdf": "/cache/pdf/a4c3dfc4da64dc7c814a3225c49c86f1.pdf",
        "cached": false
    }

where:

• pdf: relative PDF file path to download.
• cached: false if PDF file was generated new and true if file was already cached.

Example request using curl:

curl  --data url='https://habr.com/ru/' --data url='https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20685944' 'http://localhost:8080/api/wordstats/'

To run unit tests, issue command npm test.

With showcount param:

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