Saving data from API as string

I’m having trouble saving the return output from my getLastMatchData() function outside of the function itself. Tried a bunch of different things but to no result. Any help would be very appreciated!

import fetch from "node-fetch";

const premier_League_Id = '39'
const tottenhamId = '47'


const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'X-RapidAPI-Key': 'REDACTED',
        'X-RapidAPI-Host': 'api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com'
    }
};

function getLastMatchData() {
  fetch('https://api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3/fixtures?season=2022&team=47&last=1', options)
  .then(response => response.json().then(data =>{
    let generalLastMatchData = data['response'];
    let leagueName = generalLastMatchData[0]['league'].name;
    let teamNames = generalLastMatchData[0]['teams'];
    let homeTeam = teamNames['home'].name;
let awayTeam = teamNames['away'].name;
return [homeTeam, awayTeam];



 }))
}

const lastMatchNames = getLastMatchData();


console.log(lastMatchNames);

>Solution :

You are not returning anything from the getLastMatchData function. Update it to this:

function getLastMatchData() {
  // You were not returning the return value of the fetch call
  return fetch( "https://api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3/fixtures?season=2022&team=47&last=1", options).then(res => res.json()).then(data => {
    let generalLastMatchData = data["response"];
    let leagueName = generalLastMatchData[0]["league"].name;
    let teamNames = generalLastMatchData[0]["teams"];
    let homeTeam = teamNames["home"].name;
    let awayTeam = teamNames["away"].name;
   
    // This return value is for the Promise returned by the fetch call
    return [homeTeam, awayTeam];
  })
}

Use it like this:

// data is an array that contains "homeTeam" on index 0 and "awayTeam" on index 1
getLastMatchData().then(data => console.log(data))

You need to use .then as the function returns a Promise.