the github API sends the pagination data for the json results in the http link header:
Link: <https://api.github.com/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/repos?page=50&per_page=100>; rel="last"
since the github API is not the only API using this method (i think) i wanted to ask if someone has a useful little snippet to parse the link header (and convert it to an array for example) so that i can use it for my js app.
i googled around but found nothing useful regarding how to parse pagination from json APIs
The parse-link-header NPM module exists for this purpose; its source can be found on github under a MIT license (free for commercial use).
Installation is as simple as:
npm install parse-link-header
Usage looks like the following:
var parse = require('parse-link-header'); var parsed = parse('<https://api.github.com/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/repos?page=50&per_page=100>; rel="last"')
...after which one has parsed.next
, parsed.last
, etc:
{ next: { page: '3', per_page: '100', rel: 'next', url: 'https://api.github.com/repos?page=3&per_page=100' }, last: { page: '50', per_page: '100', rel: 'last', url: ' https://api.github.com/repos?page=50&per_page=100' } }
There is a PageLinks class in the GitHub Java API that shows how to parse the Link
header.
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