async function returns Promise { }

Question

I am trying to write a function that takes a URL and returns the engagement stats from Facebook Graph API against that URL. But I am facing trouble as my function is just giving me Promise { <pending> } as output.

Here is my code:

const getFacebookStats = async (link, ACCESS_TOKEN) => {
  try {
    const resp = await axios.get(
      `https://graph.facebook.com/v12.0/?id=${link}&fields=engagement&access_token=${ACCESS_TOKEN}`
    );
    return resp;
  } catch (err) {
    // Handle Error Here
    console.error(err);
  }
};

Any help would be much appreciated.

How are you calling this function ? `getFacebookStats` is an asyncronous function, ans so it will return a promise. Are you awaiting it ? — Gray Hat, Nov 04 '21 at 12:00
I try something like `const response = await getFacebookStats(link, ACCESS_TOKEN)` then `console.log(response)`, this produces an error `SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions and the top level bodies of modules` — Nabeel Hassan, Nov 04 '21 at 12:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '21 at 12:14

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Call your function like this:

getFacebookStats(link, ACCESS_TOKEN).then(response => {
    console.log(response);
}).catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
});

Or you could call it using await inside an async function.

Check this answer for a more detailed explaination of Promises in javascript.

answered Nov 04 '21 at 12:14

Gray Hat

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Thanks the link to the detailed answer really helped a lot. – Nabeel Hassan Nov 08 '21 at 05:01

async function returns Promise { }

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