Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on coding a Discord Bot with both fun commands, and moderation commands. As I’m playing around with the Discord.js library, I learned a ton of neat things about working with it.<\/p>\n
Here<\/a> it is, in case you want to see it.<\/p>\n I wanted to get my bot to get Hypixel Skyblock Bazaar data. However, accessing the Hypixel API can be quite obscure and confusing if you’ve never done it before. So, to save you the trouble, I’ll share with you how my bot pulls bazaar data from the Hypixel API.<\/p>\n Note: We’ll be using JavaScript for this, as we are using Discord.js.<\/em><\/p>\n I’m going to assume you’re using using npm<\/span>, and that you’ve already set up your project file using npm.<\/p>\n To fetch things from a website, we’ll be using the node-fetch<\/a> package.<\/p>\n Go ahead and install node-fetch. Navigate to your project folder and Next, you’ll want to make sure that you actually use node-fetch in your code: <\/p>\n Now that you have that set up, make sure that you have an API key from Hypixel. You can obtain one by logging into the server and typing in \/api new<\/span>.<\/p>\n In your code, you’ll want to set up something similar to the following:<\/p>\n Your API key should be kept private. Make sure that wherever you decide to store your API key, that it doesn’t accidentally get uploaded onto github if you decide to publicly share your code.<\/p>\n An example of what you could do with the data is to compute the “flipping profit” or how much you’d make by setting up a buy order, then setting up the item as a sell order.<\/p>\n You can access the buy order prices with data.product_info.quck_status.buyPrice<\/span>. You can see my usage of this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n data is basically the parsed json object returned whenever you send the request. The official documentation for it can be found here<\/a><\/strong>. Note all of this data is read-only, so you can’t change any of the data.<\/p>\n I really liked the Discord.js-style of documentation, so I’m going to attempt to mimic it here, to make it easier to read.<\/p>\nInstalling Dependencies<\/h5>\n
\nnpm install node-fetch<\/span>. You’ll know that it installed correctly when it appears as a dependency in your package.json<\/span>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n
\nconst fetch = require(‘node-fetch’);<\/span><\/p>\nGetting the Response<\/h5>\n
let api_key = \"YOUR_API_KEY\";\r\nlet product_id = \"PRODUCT_NAME_HERE\";\r\n\r\nfetch(`https:\/\/api.hypixel.net\/skyblock\/bazaar\/product?key=${api_key}&productId=${product_id}`)\r\n .then(response => response.json())\r\n .then(data => {\r\n \/\/ Do something with the data here.\r\n console.log(data);\r\n });<\/pre>\n
\nYou can access the sell order prices with data.product_info.quck_status.sellPrice<\/span>.
\nNow, just subtract the sell price from the buy price and you’ve got profit. You’ll have to take the 1% selling tax into account, but hey, you created a basic bot to tell you the profits of the items.<\/p>\nUnofficial Documentation<\/h3>\n
Data<\/h3>\n