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Newbie needs with cryptojs and md5

I am a total newbie in JavaScript. I want to play with a Rest API. This requires the creation of an X-Auth key for authentication.
The documentation said:
The X-Auth-Key header should be constructed using the following
algorithm: md5(api_key + md5(url + X-Auth-User + api_key +
X-Auth-Expires)).
For example, consider a GET request to
https://<server_ip>/api/live_events/1?clean=true by the user 'admin'
with the api_key '1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ' that expires on June 1, 2011
UTC. In this case the url parameter is '/live_events/1' and the
X-Auth-Expires value is '1306886400'. Thus the value of X-Auth-Key
should be computed as follows:
md5('1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ' +
md5('/live_events/1'+'admin'+'1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ'+'1306886400'))
=> md5('1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ' + md5('/live_events/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400'))
=> '180c88df8d0d4182385f6eb7e7045a42'
I have tried to implement this with CryptoJs so far, but unfortunately I can't get the values of the example:
<script>
var md5xx = CryptoJS.MD5('/live_events/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400')
var md5yy = CryptoJS.MD5(('1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ') + String(md5xx));
console.log(md5yy.toString());
// => 17222238c238b7ac9f76ea8d0fe1e330
</script>
I would really appreciate some help! Thanks in advance!

The md5 hash you obtained 17222238c238b7ac9f76ea8d0fe1e330 is correct.
The given 180c88df8d0d4182385f6eb7e7045a42 example with reverse lookup gives a different link /jobs/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400 instead of /live_events/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400.
You can cross check with
https://md5.gromweb.com/?md5=180c88df8d0d4182385f6eb7e7045a42
and
https://md5.gromweb.com/?md5=a39ee4e3aa79939249cb6b5e7faead28
//the hash you actually expected
var md5xx = CryptoJS.MD5('/jobs/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400')
var md5yy = CryptoJS.MD5(('1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ') + String(md5xx));
console.log(md5yy.toString());
//correct hash according to the given link
var md5xx = CryptoJS.MD5('/live_events/1admin1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ1306886400')
var md5yy = CryptoJS.MD5(('1acpJN7oEDn3BDDYhQ') + String(md5xx));
console.log(md5yy.toString());
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.1.1/crypto-js.min.js"></script>

How do I put together string variables in Javascript? It's just saying "Object Undefined"

I have tried for so long to get this code to work. I'm programming a little game when you need to be fast, so I made a stopwatch. But the stopwatch just doesn't want to work. Instead of the seconds the stopwatch is showing Object Undefined and I don't know why. This is the code i'm using:
var stopwatchFrame = 0;
var stopwatchSeconds = 0;
var stopwatchSecondsString = "Nothing";
stopwatchFrame+=1;
stopwatchSeconds = floor(stopwatchFrame/updatesPerSecond);
stopwatchSecondsString = toString(stopwatchSeconds);
var = "Total time: " + stopwatchSecondsString + " seconds";
I'm using a simple website called Koda.nu, it's a Swedish website for young to learn programming in JS. Some functions is coming from their built in source. I'm new to programming so that's why.

You are missing a variable name where you have a value of "Total time: " + stopwatchSecondsString + " seconds"; It should be:
var totalTime = "Total time: " + stopwatchSecondsString + " seconds";
Also read what #Jaromanda X wrote in the comments section. It should be like this:
stopwatchSeconds = Math.floor(stopwatchFrame/updatesPerSecond);
stopwatchSecondsString = stopwatchSeconds.toString();
We don't have an access to your updatesPerSecond variable so that would throw an error as well. If declared, your code would work like this:
var stopwatchFrame = 0;
var stopwatchSeconds = 0;
var stopwatchSecondsString = "Nothing";
var updatesPerSecond = 0;
stopwatchFrame += 1;
stopwatchSeconds = Math.floor(stopwatchFrame / updatesPerSecond);
stopwatchSecondsString = stopwatchSeconds.toString();
var totalTime = "Total time: " + stopwatchSecondsString + " seconds";

You dont have a variable name in the last line, and if this is all your code, then you dont initialize updatesPerSecond, meaning you dont have a line like
var updatesPerSecond = somenumberhere
If you name your last variable and initialize updatesPerSecond then you should be fine.
However I dont know anything about this website, but I quess it's old. Here is some advice.
You need to tell javascript, that floor is a function from Math so use Math.floor, maybe it works in this website like you did, but keep in mind that you should use it otherwise.
toString() doesnt work like that. Again I dont know if they are using some different methods, but normal js toString() works like number.toString() and u can pass the radix as a parameter, meaning the base of the number representation (2 for binary, 16 for hexadecimal etc.) but this is optional, default is 10 for decimal.
Dont use var as a declaration. Use let instead, if the variable will change, and use const if it wont. In your case you should use let everywhere.
Other thing is that you can use the ++ operator to increment a value by 1, so instead of stopwatchFrame+= 1 just use stopwatchFrame++
And last you shouldn't initialize your default string value as "Nothing", it should be "", an empty string or undefined or null.
I hope this helps, have a good day!

Dynamically setting variables in javascript

Trying to dynamically set variables depending how many vimeo iframes are on my page. Im using the Eval method in my code below:
var numberVimeoFrames = jQuery(".vimeo").length;
for(i=1;i<=numberVimeoFrames;i++){
var refFrame = jQuery('.vimeo:nth-child(' + i + ')');
eval("player" + i + "= new Vimeo.Player(" + refFrame + ")");
}
My eval line is however generating an error message:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
To me it looks like ive concatenated correctly so not sure where ive gone wrong?

Even though in this case I do not think it is that bad, the general opinion is to not use eval at all.
Use arrays instead :
var numberVimeoFrames = jQuery(".vimeo").length;
var players = [];
for(i=1;i<=numberVimeoFrames;i++){
var refFrame = jQuery('.vimeo:nth-child(' + i + ')');
players.push(new Vimeo.Player(refFrame));
}
You can now access your players by calling the array (for example players[1] instead of player1 and so on.)

Updating a ScriptProperty to avoid retrieving duplicate Twitter statuses

I was interested in writing a twitter bot to help out some friends at a local ski resort. I found this tutorial from Amit Agarwal which gave me enough to get started (it did take me more than 5 minutes since I did a lot of modifying). I host the script on google docs.
FIRST I think this is javascript (my understanding is that google apps script uses javascript...) and when I have had problems with the code so far, google searches for javascript-such-and-such have been helpful, but if this is not actually javascript, please let me know so I can update the tag accordingly!
I have no prior experience with javascript, so I am pretty happy that it's actually working. But I want to see if I'm doing this right.
The start function initiates the trigger, which kicks off the fetchTweets() function every interval (30 minutes). In order to avoid duplicates (the first errors I encountered) & potentially being flagged as spam, I needed a way to ensure that I was not posting the same tweets over and over again. Within the start() function, the initial since_id value is assigned:
ScriptProperties.setProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID", "404251049889759234");
Within the fetchTweet() function, I think I am updating this property with the statement:
ScriptProperties.setProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID", lastID + '\n');
Is this a good way to do this? Or is there a better/more reliable way? And if so, how can I be sure it's updating the property? (I can check the log file and it seems to be doing it, so I probably just need to create a permanent text file for the logger).
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
/** A S I M P L E T W I T T E R B O T **/
/** ======================================= **/
/** Written by Amit Agarwal #labnol on 03/08/2013 **/
/** Modified by David Zemens #agnarchy on 11/21/2013 **/
/** Tutorial link: http://www.labnol.org/?p=27902 **/
/** Live demo at http://twitter.com/DearAssistant **/
/** Last updated on 09/07/2013 - Twitter API Fix **/
function start() {
Logger.log("start!" + '\n')
// REPLACE THESE DUMMY VALUES
// https://script.google.com/macros/d/18DGYaa-jbaAK9rEv0HZ2cMcWjFGgkvVcvr6TfksMNbbu2Brk3gZeZ46R/edit
var TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = "___REDACTED___";
var TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = "___REDACTED___";
var TWITTER_HANDLE = "___REDACTED___";
var SEARCH_QUERY = "___REDACTED___" + TWITTER_HANDLE;
// Store variables
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY", TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET", TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_HANDLE", TWITTER_HANDLE);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("SEARCH_QUERY", SEARCH_QUERY);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID", "404251049889759234");
// Delete exiting triggers, if any
var triggers = ScriptApp.getScriptTriggers();
for(var i=0; i < triggers.length; i++) {
ScriptApp.deleteTrigger(triggers[i]);
}
// Setup trigger to read Tweets every 2 hours
ScriptApp.newTrigger("fetchTweets")
.timeBased()
.everyMinutes(30)
//.everyHours(2)
.create();
}
function oAuth() {
//Authentication
var oauthConfig = UrlFetchApp.addOAuthService("twitter");
oauthConfig.setAccessTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token");
oauthConfig.setRequestTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token");
oauthConfig.setAuthorizationUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize");
oauthConfig.setConsumerKey(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"));
oauthConfig.setConsumerSecret(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"));
}
function fetchTweets() {
oAuth();
// I put this line in to monitor whether the property is getting "stored" so as to avoid
// reading in duplicate tweets.
Logger.log("Getting tweets since " + ScriptProperties.getProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID"))
var twitter_handle = ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_HANDLE");
var search_query = ScriptProperties.getProperty("SEARCH_QUERY")
Logger.log("searching tweets to " + search_query + '\n');
// form the base URL
// restrict to a certain radius ---:
//var search = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?count=5&geocode=42.827934,-83.564306,75mi&include_entities=false&result_type=recent&q=";
// unrestricted radius:
var search = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?count=5&include_entities=false&result_type=recent&q=";
search = search + encodeString(search_query) + "&since_id=" + ScriptProperties.getProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID");
var options =
{
"method": "get",
"oAuthServiceName":"twitter",
"oAuthUseToken":"always"
};
try {
var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch(search, options);
var lastID = ScriptProperties.getProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID");
if (result.getResponseCode() === 200) {
var data = Utilities.jsonParse(result.getContentText());
if (data) {
var tweets = data.statuses;
//Logger.log(data.statuses);
for (var i=tweets.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
// Make sure this is a NEW tweet
if (tweets[i].id > ScriptProperties.getProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID")) {
lastID = (tweets[i].id_str);
var answer = tweets[i].text.replace(new RegExp("\#" + twitter_handle, "ig"), "").replace(twitter_handle, "");
// I find this TRY block may be necessary since a failure to send one of the tweets
// may abort the rest of the loop.
try {
Logger.log("found >> " + tweets[i].text)
Logger.log("converted >> " + answer + '\n');
sendTweet(tweets[i].user.screen_name, tweets[i].id_str, answer.substring(0,140));
// Update the script property to avoid duplicates.
ScriptProperties.setProperty("SINCE_TWITTER_ID", lastID);
Logger.log("sent to #" + tweets[i].user.screen_name + '\n');
} catch (e) {
Logger.log(e.toString() + '\n');
}
}
}
}
}
} catch (e) {
Logger.log(e.toString() + '\n');
}
Logger.log("Last used tweet.id: " + lastID + + "\n")
}
function sendTweet(user, reply_id, tweet) {
var options =
{
"method": "POST",
"oAuthServiceName":"twitter",
"oAuthUseToken":"always"
};
var status = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json";
status = status + "?status=" + encodeString("RT #" + user + " " + tweet + " - Thanks\!");
status = status + "&in_reply_to_status_id=" + reply_id;
try {
var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch(status, options);
Logger.log("JSON result = " + result.getContentText() + '\n');
}
catch (e) {
Logger.log(e.toString() + '\n');
}
}
// Thank you +Martin Hawksey - you are awesome
function encodeString (q) {
// Update: 09/06/2013
// Google Apps Script is having issues storing oAuth tokens with the Twitter API 1.1 due to some encoding issues.
// Henc this workaround to remove all the problematic characters from the status message.
var str = q.replace(/\(/g,'{').replace(/\)/g,'}').replace(/\[/g,'{').replace(/\]/g,'}').replace(/\!/g, '|').replace(/\*/g, 'x').replace(/\'/g, '');
return encodeURIComponent(str);
// var str = encodeURIComponent(q);
// str = str.replace(/!/g,'%21');
// str = str.replace(/\*/g,'%2A');
// str = str.replace(/\(/g,'%28');
// str = str.replace(/\)/g,'%29');
// str = str.replace(/'/g,'%27');
// return str;
}

When you use ScriptProperties.setProperty("KEY", "VALUE");, internally Script Properties will overwrite a duplicate key (i.e., if an old Property has the same key, your new one will replace it). So in your case, since you are using the same identifier for the key (SINCE_TWITTER_ID), it will replace any previous Script Property that is that key.
Furthermore, you can view Script Properties via File -> Project properties -> Project properties (tab). Imo Google didn't name that very well. User properties as specific to Google users. Script properties as specific to the Script Project you are working under.
Also, it probably isn't a good idea to include \n in your value when you set the property. That will lead to all sorts of bugs down the road, because you'll have to compare with something like the following:
var valToCompare = "My value\n";
instead of:
var valToCompare = "My value";
because the value in SINCE_TWITTER_ID will actually be "some value\n" after you call your fetchTweet() function.
Of course, one seems more logical I think, unless you really need the line breaks (in which case you should be using them somewhere else, for this application).

Its ok like that thou I dont know why you are adding \n at fhe end. Might confuse other code. You can see script properties in the script's file menu+ properties

Webpage not found javascript error

I am very new to javascript and was practicing when i came accross this error where my web browser can't find the html document when the location variable is inside the <script</script tags
<script>
<!--
var location = "Syrdsase va";
var name = "bob sixlet";
var age = 14;
document.write(name + ", " + age + location);
//-->
</script>

juste don't use location as a variable it will redirect you to a new page. change your variale's name and it will work
some reserved variables in js
http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_reserved_words.cfm

There is a location object which when assigned to, changes the location of the page:
location = 'http://www.google.com'; // goes to Google homepage
Usually, to avoid confusion, it is usually referred to using window.location, but since window is simply the global object, reassigning location will make the page go to the URL that is the value of the string.
To solve the issue, simply rename the variable:
var myLocation = "Syrdsase va";
var name = "bob sixlet";
var age = 14;
document.write(name + ", " + age + myLocation);