How are pictures recovered from Res?

[futurepirateking]

giphy.search('pokemon').then(function (res) { // Res contains gif data! });

I'm trying to use this in my discord.js bot but i'm not sure how i'm supposed to get the image.

I've tried message.channel.send(res[0]) and it doesn't do anything.

[austinkelleher]

Hey @kobeissi2. The giphy-api module returns the actual response from the official Giphy API. Take a look here for an example response. The Giphy search response returns 25 images by default in its response, so what you're going to receive is an array.

giphy.search('pokemon').then(function (res) {
    // Print the url of the first image returned in the array
    console.log(res.data[0].images.original.url);
});

If you're only interested in single result, you can add the limit option:

giphy.search({
    q: 'pokemon',
    limit: 1 // The response will contain an array of length 1
}).then(function (res) {
    // Print the url of the first image returned in the array
    console.log(res.data[0].images.original.url);
});

Let me know if you have any other questions.

[futurepirateking]

Thank you!