goose-parser
Advanced tools
This tool moves routine crawling process to the new level. Now it's possible to parse a web page for a few moments. All you need is to specify parsing rules based on css selectors. It's so simple as Goose can do it. This library allows to parse such data types as grids, collections, and simple objects. Parser supports pagination via infinite scroll and pages. It offers next features: pre-parse actions and post-parse transformations.
npm install goose-parser
This library has dependency on PhantomJS 2.0. Follow instructions provided by the link or build it manually.
All css selectors can be set in a sizzle format.
This is a special atmosphere where Parser has to be executed. The main purpose of the environment is to provide a method for evaluating JS on the page.
That environment is used for running Parser on node.
var env = new PhantomEnvironment({
url: 'http://google.com',
});
The main and only required parameter is url. It contains an url address of the site, where Parser will start.
More detailed information about default options you can find here.
That environment is used for running Parser in the browser.
var env = new BrowserEnvironment();
To created packed js-file with Parser execute following command:
npm run build
Parser.js is the main component of the package which performs page parsing.
var parser = new Parser({
environment: env,
pagination: pagination
});
Fields:
parser.parse({
actions: actions,
rules: parsingRules
});
Fields:
Add custom action by using method addAction. Custom function is aware about context of Actions.
Example
parser.addAction('custom-click', function(options) {
// do some action
});
Params:
Add custom trasformation by using method addTransformation.
Example
parser.addTransformation('custom-transform', function (options, result) {
return result + options.increment;
});
Params:
The purpose of this rule - retrieving simple textual node value(s).
Example:
Parsing rule
{
name: 'node',
scope: 'div.simple-node'
}
HTML
<div class='simple-node'>simple-value</div>
Parsing result
{
node: 'simple-value'
}
Fields:
The purpose of this rule - retrieving collection of nodes.
Example:
Parsing rule
{
name: 'row',
scope: 'div.collection-node',
collection: [
{
name: 'node1',
scope: 'div.simple-node1'
},
{
name: 'node2',
scope: 'div.simple-node2'
},
{
name: 'nested',
scope: 'div.nested-node',
collection: [
{
name: 'node3',
scope: 'div.simple-node3'
}
]
}
]
}
HTML
<div class='collection-node'>
<div class='simple-node1'>simple-value1</div>
<div class='simple-node2'>simple-value2</div>
<div class='nested-node'>
<div class='simple-node3'>simple-value3</div>
</div>
</div>
Parsing result
{
row: {
node1: 'simple-value1',
node2: 'simple-value2',
nested: {
node3: 'simple-value3'
}
}
}
Fields:
The purpose of this rule - retrieving collection of collection.
Example:
Parsing rule
{
scope: 'div.collection-node',
collection: [[
{
name: 'node1',
scope: 'div.simple-node1'
},
{
name: 'node2',
scope: 'div.simple-node2'
}
]]
}
HTML
<div>
<div class='collection-node'>
<div class='simple-node1'>simple-value1</div>
<div class='simple-node2'>simple-value2</div>
</div>
<div class='collection-node'>
<div class='simple-node1'>simple-value3</div>
<div class='simple-node2'>simple-value4</div>
</div>
</div>
Parsing result
[
{
node1: 'simple-value1',
node2: 'simple-value2'
},
{
node1: 'simple-value3',
node2: 'simple-value4'
}
]
Fields:
This is a way to parse collection-based data. See more info in Paginator.js
This type of pagination allows to parse collections with infinite scroll.
{
type: 'scroll',
interval: 500
}
Fields:
This type of pagination allows to parse collections with ajax-page pagination.
JS definition
{
type: 'page',
scope: '.page',
pageScope: '.pageContainer',
}
HTML
<div>
<div class='pageContainer'>
<div class='collection-node'>
<div class='simple-node1'>simple-value1</div>
<div class='simple-node2'>simple-value2</div>
</div>
<div class='collection-node'>
<div class='simple-node1'>simple-value3</div>
<div class='simple-node2'>simple-value4</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class='pagination'>
<div class='page'>1</div>
<div class='page'>2</div>
<div class='page'>3</div>
</div>
</div>
Fields:
Allow to execute actions on the page before parse process. All actions could return a result of the execution.
Click by the element on the page.
Example:
{
type: 'click',
scope: '.open-button'
}
Fields:
click for that action.Wait for the element on the page.
Example:
{
type: 'wait',
scope: '.open-button.done'
}
Fields:
wait for that action.Type text to the element.
Example:
{
type: 'type',
scope: 'input'
text: 'Some text to enter'
}
Fields:
type for that action.Check if element exist on the page.
Example:
{
type: 'exist',
scope: '.some-element'
}
Fields:
exist for that action.Action which helps to create if statement based on another action.
Example:
{
type: 'conditionalActions',
conditions: [
{
type: 'exist',
scope: '.element-to-check'
}
],
actions: [
{
type: 'click',
scope: '.element-to-check',
waitForPage: true
}
]
}
In this particular action parser checks if element .element-to-check presents on the page, do action click on it.
Fields:
conditionalActions for that action.Add custom action by using method addAction. Custom function is aware about context of Actions.
Example
actions.addAction('custom-click', function(options) {
// do some action
});
Allow to transform parsed value to some specific form.
Format date to specific view (using momentjs).
{
type: 'date',
locale: 'ru',
from: 'HH:mm D MMM YYYY',
to: 'YYYY-MM-DD'
}
Replace value using Regex.
{
type: 'replace',
re: ['\\s', 'g'],
to: ''
}
Add custom trasformation by using method addTransformation.
Example
transformations.addTransformation('custom-transform', function (options, result) {
return result + options.increment;
});
To run tests use command:
npm test
To run tests build them with command:
npm run build-test
And then run file in the browser.
All parser components are covered by debug library, which give an ability to debug application in easy way.
Set DEBUG variable with name of js file to show debug information.
DEBUG=Parser,Actions app.js
var env = new PhantomEnvironment({
url: uri,
screen: {
width: 1080,
height: 200
}
});
var parser = new Parser({
environment: env,
pagination: {
type: 'scroll',
interval: 500
}
});
parser.parse({
actions: [
{
type: 'wait',
timeout: 2 * 60 * 1000,
scope: '.container',
parentScope: 'body'
}
],
rules: {
scope: '.outer-wrap',
collection: [[
{
name: 'node1',
scope: '.node1',
actions: [
{
type: 'click',
scope: '.prepare-node1'
},
{
type: 'wait',
scope: '.prepare-node1.clicked'
}
],
collection: [
{
name: 'subNode',
scope: '.sub-node',
collection: [[
{
name: 'date',
scope: '.date-node',
transform: [
{
type: 'date',
locale: 'ru',
from: 'HH:mm D MMM YYYY',
to: 'YYYY-MM-DD'
}
]
},
{
name: 'number',
scope: '.number-node'
}
]]
}
]
},
{
name: 'prices',
scope: '.price'
}
]]
}
}).done(function (results) {
// do whatever with results
});
FAQs
Multi environment web page parser
The npm package goose-parser receives a total of 93 weekly downloads. As such, goose-parser popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that goose-parser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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