[FIX] Fix How Long To Beat implementation (#5334)

* tech: remove hltb-js and patches

* fix: fix HLTB by using native implementation

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Co-authored-by: Flavio F Lima <flavioislima@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: flavioislima

package.json

@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@
     "fs-extra": "^11.3.0",
     "fuse.js": "^6.6.2",
     "graceful-fs": "^4.2.11",
-    "howlongtobeat-js": "^1.0.2",
     "i18next": "^22.5.1",
     "i18next-fs-backend": "^2.6.0",
     "i18next-http-backend": "^2.7.3",

patches/howlongtobeat-js@1.0.2.patch

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 patchedDependencies:
   '@types/node@22.19.3': patches/@types__node@22.19.3.patch
-  howlongtobeat-js@1.0.2: patches/howlongtobeat-js@1.0.2.patch
 
 onlyBuiltDependencies:
   - '@fortawesome/fontawesome-common-types'

pnpm-lock.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+import axios from 'axios'
 import { logError, logInfo, LogPrefix } from 'backend/logger'
-import { HowLongToBeat, HowLongToBeatEntry } from 'howlongtobeat-js'
 
 // this is a subset of the HowLongToBeatEntry type without some fields
 export interface HeroicHowLongToBeatEntry {
@@ -13,42 +13,118 @@ export interface HeroicHowLongToBeatEntry {
   gameWebLink?: string
 }
 
+interface HltbGameData {
+  game_id: number
+  game_name: string
+  game_image: string
+  comp_main: number
+  comp_plus: number
+  comp_100: number
+}
+
+interface HltbSearchResponse {
+  data: HltbGameData[]
+}
+
+const HLTB_BASE_URL = 'https://howlongtobeat.com'
+
+async function getHltbToken(): Promise<string | null> {
+  const url = `${HLTB_BASE_URL}/api/finder/init?t=${Date.now()}`
+  try {
+    const response = await axios.get(url, {
+      headers: {
+        referer: HLTB_BASE_URL,
+        'User-Agent':
+          'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+      }
+    })
+    return response.data?.token || null
+  } catch (error) {
+    logError(['Error fetching HLTB token:', error], LogPrefix.ExtraGameInfo)
+    return null
+  }
+}
+
 export async function getHowLongToBeat(
   title: string
 ): Promise<HeroicHowLongToBeatEntry | null> {
   logInfo(`Getting HowLongToBeat data for ${title}`, LogPrefix.ExtraGameInfo)
-  const hltb = new HowLongToBeat(0.4)
-  let info: HowLongToBeatEntry[] | null = null
-  try {
-    info = await hltb.search(title)
-  } catch (error) {
-    logError(
-      [`Error searching HLTB data for ${title}:`, error],
-      LogPrefix.ExtraGameInfo
-    )
+
+  const token = await getHltbToken()
+  if (!token) {
     return null
   }
 
-  if (!info || info.length === 0) {
+  const searchUrl = `${HLTB_BASE_URL}/api/finder`
+  const payload = {
+    searchType: 'games',
+    searchTerms: title.split(' '),
+    searchPage: 1,
+    size: 20,
+    searchOptions: {
+      games: {
+        userId: 0,
+        platform: '',
+        sortCategory: 'popular',
+        rangeCategory: 'main',
+        rangeTime: { min: 0, max: 0 },
+        gameplay: { perspective: '', flow: '', genre: '', difficulty: '' },
+        rangeYear: { min: '', max: '' },
+        modifier: ''
+      },
+      users: { sortCategory: 'postcount' },
+      lists: { sortCategory: 'follows' },
+      filter: '',
+      sort: 0,
+      randomizer: 0
+    }
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const response = await axios.post<HltbSearchResponse>(searchUrl, payload, {
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        'x-auth-token': token,
+        referer: HLTB_BASE_URL,
+        'User-Agent':
+          'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+      }
+    })
+
+    const info = response.data?.data
+    if (!info || info.length === 0) {
+      logError(
+        `No HowLongToBeat data found for ${title}`,
+        LogPrefix.ExtraGameInfo
+      )
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const game: HltbGameData = info[0]
+
+    // New API returns values in seconds, converting to hours
+    const mainStory = game.comp_main ? Math.round(game.comp_main / 3600) : 0
+    const mainExtra = game.comp_plus ? Math.round(game.comp_plus / 3600) : 0
+    const completionist = game.comp_100 ? Math.round(game.comp_100 / 3600) : 0
+
+    return {
+      mainStory,
+      mainExtra,
+      completionist,
+      gameId: game.game_id,
+      gameName: game.game_name || undefined,
+      gameImageUrl: game.game_image
+        ? `${HLTB_BASE_URL}/games/${game.game_image}`
+        : undefined,
+      gameWebLink: game.game_id
+        ? `${HLTB_BASE_URL}/game/${game.game_id}`
+        : undefined
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
     logError(
-      `No HowLongToBeat data found for ${title}`,
+      [`Error searching HLTB data for ${title}:`, error],
       LogPrefix.ExtraGameInfo
     )
     return null
   }
-  const game = info[0]
-
-  const mainStory = game.mainStory ? Math.round(game.mainStory) : 0
-  const mainExtra = game.mainExtra ? Math.round(game.mainExtra) : 0
-  const completionist = game.completionist ? Math.round(game.completionist) : 0
-
-  return {
-    mainStory,
-    mainExtra,
-    completionist,
-    gameId: game.gameId,
-    gameName: game.gameName || undefined,
-    gameImageUrl: game.gameImageUrl || undefined,
-    gameWebLink: game.gameWebLink || undefined
-  }
 }