Has anyone been able to get MMM-PetFinder to work?

ChrisLeduex

Has anyone been able to get MMM-PetFinder to work recently? I’m working on a gift for someone but it looks like the PetFinder API has changed since the last module update. Going through the documentation and I can’t get past the Token Request part. Has anyone else had any luck with this?

https://www.petfinder.com/developers/v2/docs/

KristjanESPERANTO

Do you use the fork fromPhantomOffKanagawa?

The module needs request. Did you installed it via npm install request?

ChrisLeduex

Hi @KristjanESPERANTO Yes, I tried both forks just to be sure. And going through the js files, everything looks like it should work fine. I think the issue might be with the API key/secret Petfinder game me, I can’t even get it to return token for me when testing in the terminal.

KristjanESPERANTO

I just registered and got an API key. I entered it and the module works :-) I didn’t used the secret key.

I use the mentioned fork and installed request manually.

ChrisLeduex

Ok, I must just be missing something then. I’ll try again. Thank you for checking.

ChrisLeduex

Ok I’ve tried a couple installs starting completely over from scratch with fresh versions of Raspberry Pi OS, MagicMirror, Request, and MMM-PetFinder from PhantomOffKanagawa and I am still unable to get the module to work.

I am using a new Pi 5 and am installing MagicMirror using sdetweil’s script.

The only issues I see are related to Request. When I install it I get these issues below. But when searching on them I couldn’t find any solutions. Are these issues normal? Or is there anything else I’m missing?

mumblebaj

@ChrisLeduex Never use sudo to install anything on your mirror. Ideally you want to be in the module folder that requires request, i…e cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PetFinder/. Once in the folder you want to then install request , npm i request. You can ignore the funding stuff.

sdetweil

@ChrisLeduex you have to run

npm install request

in the module folder of the module missing it. not in the users hone folder

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PetFinder

also ignore the audit info, as there is more damage done trying audit fix

ChrisLeduex

Awesome, thanks guys! It’s finally up and running.

One last question: Do you recommend updating npm?

Installing dependencies …
npm notice
npm notice New major version of npm available! 10.9.2 -> 11.3.0
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v11.3.0
npm notice To update run: npm install -g npm@11.3.0
npm notice

sdetweil

@ChrisLeduex no. ignore that too