When calling the following method:
getLyrics: async function(song) {
const body = await this.getSongBody(song);
const lyrics = await cheerio.text(body('.lyrics'));
return lyrics;
}
as such:
genius.getLyrics('What a wonderful')
.then((res) => console.log(res))
.catch((err) => console.log(err.message));
Everything works fine and the lyrics of "What a wonderful world" by Louise Armstrong pops up in the console.
However, when I run the same code but without "await" in front of "cheerio.text..." sometimes the lyrics are produced and other times "undefined" shows up in the console. What has been making me scratch my head for a while now is that "cheerio.text..." does not return a promise (albeit "getSongBody" does), so to my understanding, there is no need to "wait" for it to finish.
I'm clearly missing something about async/await but have no idea what. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
EDIT: Added a reproducible example as requested below:
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');
// API
function geniusApi(token) {
this._token = token;
this._auth = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + this._token};
};
geniusApi.prototype = {
getSongURL : async function(search_keyword){
const res = await fetch('https://api.genius.com/search?q=' +
search_keyword,{headers: this._auth});
const body = await res.text();
const body_parsed = JSON.parse(body);
if (body_parsed.response.hits.length == 0){
console.log('No such song found');
throw Error('No such song found');
}
const url = body_parsed.response.hits[0].result.url;
return url;
},
getSongBody: async function (song){
const url = await this.getSongURL(song);
const response = await fetch(url);
const body = await response.text();
const body_parsed = cheerio.load(body);
return body_parsed;
},
getLyrics: async function(song) {
const body = await this.getSongBody(song);
const lyrics = cheerio.text(body('.lyrics'));
return lyrics;
}
}
// TEST EXAMPLE
const token =
'OTh1EYlsNdO1kELVwcevqLPtsgq3FrxfShIXg_w0EaEd8CHZrJWbWvN8Be773Cyr';
const genius = new geniusApi(token);
genius.getLyrics('What a wonderful')
.then((res) => console.log(res))
.catch((err) => console.log(err.message));