gfycat-api v0.0.4

gfycat-api

This is not an official API in any way, and may break without warning.

An API for getting posts from gfycat and redgifs. See tests for examples. May or may not work in the browser because it seems they gave up on CORS and allow anything.

import { gfycat, redgifs } from "gfycat-api";

const post = await gfycat.getPost("aridblindharvestmouse");
console.log(post);
// {
//   id: 'AridBlindHarvestmouse',
//   title: 'Fortnite default dance meme',
//   source: 'https://gfycat.com/MadeupBossyFish',
//   description: undefined,
//   rating: 'PG-13',
//   posterUrl: 'https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AridBlindHarvestmouse-poster.jpg',
//   tags: [ 'People & Blogs', 'Thefortnite Alert' ],
//   nsfw: false,
//   md5: undefined,
//   createdAt: 2018-09-25T07:27:30.000Z,
//   author: undefined,
//   votes: { likes: 4, dislikes: 0 },
//   resolution: { height: 480, width: 480 },
//   sources: [
//     {
//       type: 'max1mbGif',
//       url: 'https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AridBlindHarvestmouse-max-1mb.gif',
//       height: 280,
//       width: 280,
//       size: 909875
//     },
//     {
//       type: 'webm',
//       url: 'https://giant.gfycat.com/AridBlindHarvestmouse.webm',
//       height: 480,
//       width: 480,
//       size: 380532
//     },
//     ...
//   ],
//   meta: {
//     frameRate: 30.03003,
//     frameCount: 200,
//     hasAudio: false,
//     hasTransparency: false,
//     averageColour: '#E3FFFE'
//   }
// }

todo

• Some posts have URLs that outright don't work, we should try filter these out. An example is this post where the "largeGif" source doesn't work. This seems to be random and isn't just restricted to urls in content_urls, but the website must filter them out somehow so it should be possible for us to do the same.