queenvictoria / lexisnexis-metabase

A wrapper of the LexisNexis Metabase API for Node.js.

LexisNexis Metabase client for Node.js

A node js client library for the LexisNexis Metabase/Moreover search API. This requires a paid account.

Usage

let MetabaseSearch = require('lexisnexis-metabase/search');
let client = new MetabaseSearch({token: "[YOUR_API_KEY]"});

let params = {
  format: json,
  limit: 10,
  query: {
    '$': 'london',
    'Source country': 'United Kingdom'
  }
};

client.query(params, function(data, response) {
  console.log(data);
}, function(err) {
  console.error(err);
});

Tests

$ env API_KEY=[YOUR_API_KEY] npm test

Changelog

• 2020-02-10 v1.0.18 Upgrade licence.
• 2020-02-10 v1.0.17 Upgrade Restify to restify-clients.
• 2019-08-31 v1.0.16 Upgrade lodash and Mocha.
• 2019-08-31 v1.0.15 Remove quotes in some cases.
• 2019-05-16 v1.0.14 Upgrade Mocha.
• 2019-02-21 v1.0.13 Tests for looping fetcher. Upgrade dependencies.
• 2017-12-19 v1.0.12 Don't die on a network error.
• 2017-12-02 v1.0.11 Repair meta response.
• 2017-11-30 v1.0.10 Fix for when there are zero totalResults.
• 2017-11-30 v1.0.9 Fix for when there aren't many totalResults. Don't wait if we don't have to.
• 2017-11-30 v1.0.8 Respects Metabases rate limit timeout of 20 seconds.
• 2017-11-30 v1.0.7 Now supports large limit parameters. Metabase documentation says that 500 can be returned at a time. However our testing shows that that number is actually 200. We now use q to fetch multiple times and stitch the results together.

Documentation

• API documentation (requires account).
• Product information

Dependencies

This is built on the excellent restify client library. Also uses lodash and change-case. Testing with mocha.