Cfrgtkky

i'm trying to do a little website like sickgearr for my seedbox :
i want a search form which will send a search query to my torrent providers using this api : https://github.com/JimmyLaurent/torrent-search-api

i managed getting text from the form, making the api calls and get results printed in the console.

but when i try to pass them to the soon to-become result page, i'm only passing promises and i don't quite understand the principle of promises.

If someone could help me resolve my issues i'd be really really gratefull or atleast give me some hints !

Here is my code made up from several ejs, nodejs begginers tutorials :

const express = require('express');

const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

const app = express()

const TorrentSearchApi = require('torrent-search-api');

const tableify = require('tableify');

TorrentSearchApi.enableProvider('Yggtorrent','Login', 'Password');



app.use(express.static('public'));

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.set('view engine', 'ejs')



async function search(query){ // Search for torrents using the api



var string = query.toLowerCase();

//console.log(string);

const torrents = await TorrentSearchApi.search(string,'All',20); // Search for legal linux distros 

return(JSON.stringify(torrents));

}



app.get('/', function (req, res) {

  res.render('index');

})



app.post('/', function (req, res) {

var rawTorrent = search(req.body.torrent);

var page = tableify(rawTorrent); //printing rawtorrent will only give me "promise"

res.render('results',page);

})





app.listen(3000, function () {

  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')

})

Your search function is using async/await.
It means the search function is asynchrone and returns a Promise.
You should await its result (line 23).

https://javascript.info/async-await

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function

const express = require('express')

const bodyParser = require('body-parser')

const app = express()

const TorrentSearchApi = require('torrent-search-api')

const tableify = require('tableify')



TorrentSearchApi.enableProvider('Yggtorrent','Login', 'Password')



app.use(express.static('public'))

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))

app.set('view engine', 'ejs')





const search = async query => {

  const loweredQuery = query.toLowerCase()

  const torrents = await TorrentSearchApi.search(loweredQuery, 'All', 20)

  return JSON.stringify(torrents)

}



app.get('/', (_, res) => res.render('index'))



app.post('/', async (req, res) => {

  const torrents = await search(req.body.torrent) // Right here

  const htmlTable = tableify(torrents)

  res.render('results', htmlTable)

})



app.listen(3000, function () {

  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')

})