Combine sequence of asynchronous requests to build final answer - node.js

Question

I'm rather new in express framework. I have call flickr api to get albums list and for each album need to get its thumbnail. On the end need to build covers array with list of objects like {title, thumb}. I would like to pass fully created covers array to template and render. I have problem with it because of the way that node.js callbacks works and for loop ends quickly before requests ends. How to do that properly ?
http.get(base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photosets.getList', function(resp){
var body = '';
resp.on('data', function(chunk) {
body += chunk;
});
resp.on('end', function() {
var json = JSON.parse(body);
var ps = json.photosets.photoset;
// final answer
var covers = {};
for(var i=0; i<ps.length; i++) {
var p = ps[i];
var getSizesUrl = base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photos.getSizes&photo_id='+p.primary;
http.get(getSizesUrl, function(resp){
var body1 = '';
resp.on('data', function(chunk) {
body1 += chunk;
});
resp.on('end', function() {
var json1 = JSON.parse(body1);
covers += {title: p.title._content, thumb: json1.sizes.size[1].source};
if(i + 1 == ps.length) {
// last call
console.log(covers);
res.render('photosets', {covers: covers});
}
});
});
}
});
});
Update using async and request as #sgwilly said, but something wrong...
request(base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photosets.getList', function (error, response, body) {
var json = JSON.parse(body);
var ps = json.photosets.photoset;
// functions list to call by `async`
var funcs = {};
for(var i = 0; i < ps.length; i++) {
var p = ps[i];
funcs += function(callback) {
request(base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photos.getSizes&photo_id='+p.primary, function (error, response, body1){
var json1 = JSON.parse(body1);
var cover = {title: p.title._content, thumb: json1.sizes.size[1].source};
callback(null, cover);
});
};
}
// run requests and produce covers
async.series(funcs,
function(covers){
console.log(covers);
res.render('photosets', {covers: covers});
}
);
});

Answer 1

Node.js callbacks are a little tricky, but they'll make sense after a while.
You want to use request as your outside loop, then async.concat as a callback inside, and have each iterator be a request call of a URL.

Answer 2

Thanks for #dankohn. I got this and work :)
request(base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photosets.getList', function (error, response, body) {
var json = JSON.parse(body);
var ps = json.photosets.photoset;
async.concat(ps, function(p, callback){
request(base_url+'&user_id='+flickr.user_id+'&method=flickr.photos.getSizes&photo_id='+p.primary, function (error, response, body1){
var json1 = JSON.parse(body1);
var cover = {title: p.title._content, thumb: json1.sizes.size[1].source};
callback(null, cover);
});
},
function(err, covers){
console.log(covers);
res.render('photosets', {covers: covers});
});
});