CoinGecko-API
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20 hours ago •
miscavage
miscavage
Coins list fetching api call fails with parse error
Description
I am using this library to scrape data from coingecko platform but i have recently started receiving the following error a lot
SyntaxError: Unexpected token e in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/omer/abc-miner/node_modules/coingecko-api/lib/CoinGecko.js:864:25)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)
at endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1327:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21)
on checking the source code at node_modules/coingecko-api/lib/CoinGecko.js:864 i find this
res.on('end', () => {
try {
body = Buffer.concat(body);
body = body.toString();
//Check if page is returned instead of JSON
if (body.startsWith('<!DOCTYPE html>')) {
Utils._WARN_('Invalid request', 'There was a problem with your request. The parameter(s) you gave are missing or incorrect.');
} else if (body.startsWith('Throttled')) {
Utils._WARN_('Throttled request', 'There was a problem with request limit.');
}
//Attempt to parse
>> body = JSON.parse(body); // this is the line referred to in the error stack i-e CoinGecko.js:864
}
catch (error) {
reject(error);
};
...
I use this way of fetching a list coins list, here is my code
try {
const CoinGecko = require('coingecko-api');
const CoinGeckoClient = new CoinGecko();
console.log('before calling CG api');
let response = await CoinGeckoClient.coins.list();
console.log('after calling CG api'); // this log rarely works
} catch(err) {
console.log(err)
}
