The Missing Part of Medium RSS Feed

requestService.js

const request = require("request");
const cheerio = require("cheerio");

const url = "https://medium.com/p/d5b52f24d53c";
const element = url.split("/");
const postId = element[element.length - 1];

request(url, async (error, response, body) => {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  } else if (body) {
    var $ = cheerio.load(body, { xmlMode: true });
    try {
      const scriptTagElements = $("script")
        .map((idx, el) => $(el).html())
        .toArray();

      const findState = scriptTagElements.find((element) => {
        if (element.includes("window.__APOLLO_STATE__")) {
          return true;
        }
      });
      const apolloState = findState.replace("window.__APOLLO_STATE__ = ", "");
      const jsonOfApolloState = JSON.parse(apolloState.replace(/"/g, '"'));
      const clapCount = await jsonOfApolloState[`Post:${postId}`].clapCount;
      const responseCount = await jsonOfApolloState[`Post:${postId}`]
        .postResponses.count;
      const readingTime = await jsonOfApolloState[`Post:${postId}`].readingTime;
      const voterCount = await jsonOfApolloState[`Post:${postId}`].voterCount;
      const scrapJson = {
        clapCount: clapCount,
        responseCount: responseCount,
        voterCount: voterCount,
        readingTime: Math.round(readingTime),
      };
      console.log(scrapJson);
    } catch (e) {
      console.log("Error parsing profile", e);
    }
  } else {
    console.log("No body");
  }
});

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