I am using the Star Wars API https://swapi.co/ I need to pull in starships information, the results for starships span 4 pages, however a get call returns only 10 results per page. How can I iterate over multiple pages and get the info that I need?
I have used the fetch api to GET the first page of starships and then added this array of 10 to my totalResults array, and then created a While loop to check to see if 'next !== null' (next is the next page property in the data, if we were viewing the last page i.e. page 4, then next would be null next = null) So as long as next does not equal null, my While loop code should fetch the data and add it to my totalResults array. I have changed the value of next at the end, but it seems to looping forever and crashing.
function getData() {
let totalResults = [];
fetch('https://swapi.co/api/starships/')
.then( res => res.json())
.then(function (json) {
let starships = json;
totalResults.push(starships.results);
let next = starships.next;
while ( next !== null ) {
fetch(next)
.then( res => res.json() )
.then( function (nextData) {
totalResults.push(nextData.results);
next = nextData.next;
})
}
});
}
Code keeps looping meaning my 'next = nextData.next;' increment does not seem to be working.