Fix pet loading for most pets

Sigh, I guess xmlrpc was deleted? Back to the method that doesn't work for pets with leading digits in their names, sobbe

Dice has a neat idea for how to work around that, but I'm not sure how to fit it in our architecture, let's take a look!

package.json

@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@
     "sharp": "^0.29.2",
     "simple-markdown": "^0.7.2",
     "tweenjs": "^1.0.2",
-    "typescript": "^4.4.4",
+    "typescript": "^4.4.4"
-    "xmlrpc": "^1.3.2"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "prepare": "husky install",

src/server/load-pet-data.js

@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
-import util from "util";
 import fetch from "node-fetch";
-import xmlrpc from "xmlrpc";
 
-const neopetsXmlrpcClient = xmlrpc.createSecureClient({
+async function neopetsAmfphpCall(methodName, args) {
-  host: "www.neopets.com",
+  const url =
-  path: "/amfphp/xmlrpc.php",
+    "https://www.neopets.com/amfphp/json.php/" +
-});
+    encodeURIComponent(methodName) +
-const neopetsXmlrpcCall = util
+    "/" +
-  .promisify(neopetsXmlrpcClient.methodCall)
+    args.map(encodeURIComponent).join("/");
-  .bind(neopetsXmlrpcClient);
+  return await fetch(url).then((res) => res.json());
+}
 
 export async function loadPetMetaData(petName) {
-  const response = await neopetsXmlrpcCall("PetService.getPet", [petName]);
+  const response = await neopetsAmfphpCall("PetService.getPet", [petName]);
   return response;
 }
 
 export async function loadCustomPetData(petName) {
   try {
-    const response = await neopetsXmlrpcCall("CustomPetService.getViewerData", [
+    const response = await neopetsAmfphpCall("CustomPetService.getViewerData", [
       petName,
     ]);
     return response;