I was using the freshbooks npm module, but started having issues with its dependencies as it was last updated 3 years ago. It turns out even though the payloads are in XML, it's not too bad calling their classic API directly once you know how. Of course, then you need to process an XML response. [...]

Let's say you have a lot of query parameters you need to add to an Ajax request. For code maintainability, it's much cleaner to create a large JavaScript object, use string interpolation for the URL, and then adding a function that converts the JavaScript object to a query string. This is what it might look [...]

YouTube automatically creates subtitles for a lot of videos that are uploaded to YouTube. So instead of paying to have your videos transcribed, you can upload your video to YouTube, and programatically download the subtitles. But it took me a while to figure out how to get those subtitles programatically. I started with youtube-dl, but [...]

If you're creating an app where you need to access Google services from a server, you'll need to store the refresh token from the Google Oauth process. The access tokens periodically expire, so you need the refresh token to manually get a new access token when you need it. So if you're using the Passport [...]

If you have a front-end that needs to accept a CSV file, upload it to a server using jQuery, and then have that Node.js server process that CSV file, then this a way to do it. First up, the HTML https://gist.github.com/magician11/94e7e900b9b390fb4a53b1d32cc38476#file-index-html and then the jQuery that takes the selected CSV file, and uploads it to [...]

  I had an issue where I needed to scrape some data from a dynamically generated webpage. Open this page in a browser and you'll see what I mean. I tried a lot of options, and the solution that ended up working for me was to use Headless Chrome. This basically allows you [...]

So I recently had a job where we needed to remove the PayPal payment gateway in the Shopify checkout for particular products. So a simple way for the client to manage this, is for them to tag those products they don't want to be purchasable by PayPal, and then for us to write a script that [...]

I had a project where I needed to setup a server that communicated over the SOAP protocol. I use Node.js for my backend server, so I began looking for libraries to use to work with. I settled on strong-soap, but began to have issues with doing simple changes to the XML like editing the prefix [...]