Daily Sentence (Node.js)

A daily-sentence module for node.js. (data from http://xue.youdao.com/w?page=1&type=all&position=tinyEnglish)

It will offer you different an English sentence (translation included) and an image each day. Something like:

He who would search for pearl must dive deep.

不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

—— [4/2/2014]

Installation

You just input that code under terminal:

$ npm install daily-sentence --save

And you just need require this module in your code file:

var daily = require("daily-sentence");

Usage

Today

You can get today's sentence via

daily.today(function(err, sentence) {
    // DO SOMETHING...
});

One Day

You can get oneday's sentence via:

daily.get(ONE_DAY, function(err, sentence) {
    // DO SOMETHING...
});

The ONE_DAY above is a variable. It can be:

• Timestamp. (Eg. 1396793790)
• Timestamp with millionsecond. (Eg. 1396793790762)
• A time string. (Eg. "2012/1/2", "Apr 2, 2012", etc. Refer to SugarJS)
• A date object. (Eg. new Date())

Sentence Format

The callback function will offer you an object that like:

{
    "date"  : "yyyy-mm-dd",
    "image" : "THE_IMAGE_URL",
    "sen"   : "THE_ENGLISH_SENTENCE",
    "trans" : "THE_TRANSLATION"
}

Disable Cache

The module will default enable local cache (to save the network traffic). It will create a .daily-sen-db directory at your current work directory (process.cwd()). And all the cache file will be put into it.

If you don't want to use the cache files, you can disable it before you get.

daily.setUseCache(false);

And if you want to reopen it, just switch the false to true.

To Do

Maybe I will create some sync functions. Just maybe.

Contribute

Anyone can do contribution to this project. And I will glad to merge your commit.

Just contact me @:

• Email: admin#xcoder.in
• Weibo
• StackOverflow

License

GPLv2