chocodata

Official Node.js / TypeScript SDK for the Chocodata web scraping API.

Typed methods for the endpoints most people start with, a generic client for the rest of the catalog, retry with backoff, and a structured error type.

npm install chocodata

Requires Node 18+ (uses the global fetch). No runtime dependencies.

Quick start

import { Chocodata } from 'chocodata';

const chocodata = new Chocodata('asa_live_YOUR_KEY');

const product = await chocodata.amazon.product({ query: '0143127748' });
console.log(product.title, product.price);

Get a key at chocodata.com. The free tier is 1,000 requests, one time, no card.

Authentication

The key travels as a query parameter, which the SDK handles for you. There is no header auth: sending Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key returns 401.

Typed endpoints

Every method below was smoke-tested against production before release.

// Ecommerce
await chocodata.amazon.product({ query: '0143127748' });          // ASIN or ISBN
await chocodata.amazon.product({ query: '0143127748', domain: 'de' });
await chocodata.amazon.search({ query: 'laptop' });

await chocodata.walmart.product({ url: 'https://www.walmart.com/ip/19075520026' });
await chocodata.walmart.search({ query: 'laptop' });

await chocodata.ebay.product({ url: 'https://www.ebay.com/itm/298520538688' });
await chocodata.ebay.search({ query: 'laptop' });

// Search engines  (note: Bing takes `q`, not `query`)
await chocodata.bing.search({ q: 'coffee', count: 10 });
await chocodata.bing.images({ q: 'red panda', count: 20, safe_search: 'strict' });

// Social / video
await chocodata.tiktok.profile({ username: 'rotana' });
await chocodata.youtube.video({ video_id: 'dQw4w9WgXcQ' });
await chocodata.instagram.profile({ username: 'nasa' });

Parameters are not uniform across targets, and the SDK does not pretend otherwise. amazon.product takes query; walmart.product takes url or id and rejects query; bing.search takes q. The types encode the real contract per endpoint.

Everything else

The catalog has 499 endpoints. Anything without a typed method is reachable through the same code path:

await chocodata.scrape('bing', 'videos', { q: 'coffee' });
await chocodata.scrape('reddit', 'post', { post_id: '627akk', subreddit: 'askscience' });

Errors

Failures throw a ChocodataError carrying the status, the API's error code, and whether the server considers it retryable.

import { Chocodata, ChocodataError } from 'chocodata';

try {
  await chocodata.tiktok.profile({ username: 'a-handle-that-is-gone' });
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof ChocodataError) {
    console.log(e.status);     // 404
    console.log(e.code);       // 'item_not_found'
    console.log(e.retryable);  // false
    console.log(e.requestId);  // for support
  }
}

Common codes:

| Status | Code | Meaning | |---|---|---| | 400 | invalid_params | A required parameter is missing or the wrong type. The body names it. | | 401 | INVALID_API_KEY | Key missing, unrecognised, or revoked. | | 402 | INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS | Balance exhausted. | | 404 | item_not_found | The item genuinely does not exist. Not retryable. | | 429 | RATE_LIMITED | Over 120 requests / 60s, or over your plan's concurrency. | | 502 | extraction_failed / target_unreachable | Retryable; the SDK already retried. |

You are only charged on a 2xx. Errors cost no credits.

Retries

Retryable failures (429, 5xx, network) are retried with exponential backoff plus jitter. The SDK trusts the server's retryable flag, so a 404 is never retried.

const chocodata = new Chocodata('asa_live_YOUR_KEY', {
  maxRetries: 3,      // default 2
  timeoutMs: 120_000, // default 90_000
  debug: true,        // log every call to stderr
});

Concurrency

Requests are 120 per key per 60 seconds, plus a per-plan concurrency ceiling. Size your own fan-out:

const asins = ['0143127748', 'B09B8V1LZ3', 'B0BSHF7WHW'];
const results = await Promise.all(
  asins.map((query) => chocodata.amazon.product({ query })),
);

License

MIT