API Search App

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How do I make an api search app?

With the use of GitHub's API, created a search app to search through GitHub users, and their followers.. What is a api search app? How do you make a api search app? This script and codes were developed by Raquel Lorenzana on 20 January 2023, Friday.

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API Search App - Script Codes HTML Codes

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html >
<head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>API Search App</title> <link rel='stylesheet prefetch' href='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/css/bootstrap.min.css'>
<link rel='stylesheet prefetch' href='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/animate.css/3.5.2/animate.min.css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row align-items-center justify-content-center"> <div class="col header-logo" id="top"> </div> </div> <!-- heading --> <div class="main-heading row align-items-center justify-content-center"> <div class="col align-self-center"> <h4 class="text-center animated fadeInDown">Search</h4> <h1 class="text-center animated fadeInDown">GitHub</h1> <h4 class="text-center animated fadeInDown">Users</h4> </div> </div> <!-- search input --> <div class="row justify-content-center"> <div class="col align-self-center"> <form class="text-center" id="github_search"> <div class="input-group input-group-lg"> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">@</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Username" aria-label="Username" aria-describedby="basic-addon1"> </div> <button class="submit-btn btn btn-outline-secondary" type="submit">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> <!-- display results here --> <div class="row"> <div id="results" class="col-sm-12 results"></div> </div> <!-- load more button --> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col text-center align-self-center"> <button type="button" class="load-btn btn btn-secondary">Load More</button> <br> <a class="back-top" id="back_top" href="#top"><p>Back to top</p></a> </div> </div>
</div> <script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js'></script> <script src="js/index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

API Search App - Script Codes CSS Codes

h1, h2, h3, h4 { margin: 0; padding: 0;
}
body { background-color: #f7f7f7;
}
.container-fluid { padding-bottom: 40px;
}
.header-logo { height: 64px; background-color: #24292e; background-image: url('../img/gh_icon.png'); background-size: 50px 50px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 60px;
}
.main-heading { margin: 1% 0 2%;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4 { font-family: Roboto, "Open Sans", Sans-serif;
}
/* Input form*/
.input-group { width: 300px; margin: 0 auto 1%;
}
input::placeholder { color: #d5d5d5; font-family: "Open Sans", Sans-serif;
}
form { margin: 30px;
}
/*GitHub user results*/
.user-col { width: 350px; height: 90px; background-color: #24292e; color: #f0f0f0; margin: 0 auto; border-radius: 5px;
}
.user-text { margin-top: 10px;
}
/*GitHub follower results*/
.follower-row { border-bottom: 1px solid #d5d5d5;
}
.follower-col { margin: 1% auto;
}
.avatar-img { width: 100px; height: 100px; margin: 2% 8% 2% 0%;
}
.avatar-text { color: #b9b9b9; font-family: "Roboto-Mono", "Open Sans", Sans-serif; font-weight: 500; font-size: 130%;
}
.load-btn { margin: 3% auto; display: none;
}
.back-top { font-family: Roboto, "Open Sans", Sans-serif; font-weight: 500; display: none;
}
a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #b9b9b9;
}
/*Media Queries*/
@media (min-width: 768px) { .avatar-img { width: 130px; height: 130px; margin-right: 5% }

API Search App - Script Codes JS Codes

$(function () { SearchModule.init();
});
var SearchModule = function () { var $results = $("#results"); var $form = $("#github_search"); var remainderDisplayed; var totalDisplayedFollowers; var totalFollowers; // init function _init() { var $loadButton = $(".load-btn"); var $backTop = $(".back-top") // Retrieve first page of user and followers data $form.submit(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); $results.html(''); var searchText = $(this).find("input[type=text]:first").val(); $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "https://api.github.com/users/" + searchText, dataType: "json", success: function (userData) { _createUserInfo(userData); $.ajax({ url: "https://api.github.com/users/" + searchText + "/followers", dataType: "json", type: 'GET', success: function (followerData) { _createFollowerResults(followerData); // display 'Load More' button and 'Back to Search' anchor when appropriate // Test with input value: Kira for 0 followers //Jake for 56 followers (2pgs) // Amy for 93 followers (4pgs) // Holman for 5k+ followers (100+pgs) totalFollowers = userData.followers totalDisplayedFollowers = $results.find(".follower-row").length; remainderDisplayed = totalFollowers % totalDisplayedFollowers; if(totalDisplayedFollowers < totalFollowers){ $loadButton.show(); } else if (remainderDisplayed < totalDisplayedFollowers) { $loadButton.hide(); } if(totalDisplayedFollowers){ $backTop.show(); }else{ $backTop.hide(); } // custom tracker start at pg 1 $loadButton.attr('data-page', 1); } }); } }); }); // Retrieve subsequent pages $loadButton.click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); var searchText = $form.find("input[type=text]:first").val(); var page = parseInt($loadButton.attr('data-page')) + 1; // find remaining displayed on last page to know when button should be hidden // Test same as before var displayedCeil = totalDisplayedFollowers * page; var lastPageTotal = totalDisplayedFollowers - remainderDisplayed; var lastPageTotalDisplayed = displayedCeil - lastPageTotal; if(lastPageTotalDisplayed == totalFollowers){ $loadButton.hide(); } $.ajax({ url: "https://api.github.com/users/" + searchText + "/followers?page= " + page, dataType: "json", type: 'GET', success: function (moreFollowerData) { _createFollowerResults(moreFollowerData); } }); // page tracker $loadButton.attr('data-page', page); }); } // user data html(login and follower count) function _createUserInfo(userData) { var template = '' + '<div class="row">' + ' <div class="col-8 col-sm-6 user-col">' + ' <h2 class="text-center animated pulse user-text">' + userData.name + '</h2>' + ' <h4 class="text-center animated pulse followers-text">' + userData.followers + ' followers</h4>' + ' </div>' + '</div>' + '<br>'; $results.append(template); } // follower data html(avatar and url) function _createFollowerResults(followerData) { var length = followerData.length; var template = '' + '<div class="row follower-row">' + ' <div class="col-10 col-sm-4 follower-col">' + ' <a href="##URL##" target="_blank">' + ' <img class="rounded-circle img-fluid avatar-img" src="##AVATAR##" alt="Avatar Image">' + ' <span class="avatar-text">##LOGIN##</span>' + ' </a>' + ' </div>' + '</div>'; // replace proxies with actual for (i = 0; i < length; i++) { var follower = followerData[i]; var html = template .replace("##URL##", follower.html_url) .replace("##AVATAR##", follower.avatar_url) .replace("##LOGIN##", follower.login); $results.append(html); } } return {init: _init};
}();
API Search App - Script Codes
API Search App - Script Codes
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Developer Raquel Lorenzana
Username raquellorenzana
Uploaded January 20, 2023
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