html-scrape

HTML Scrape

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A tool that will scrape html webpages with ease.

To install:

npm install html-scrape

Example of usage for finding a value in between something:

var scrape = require('html-scrape');

var elements = {
	title: { start: '<title>', end: '</title>' },
	explicit: { el: '#explicit > a' }
}

scrape ('https://npmjs.com', elements, function (error, data) {
	if (error) {
		console.log(error);
	} else {
		console.log(data);
	}
});

Above would return:

{ title: 'npm', explicit: 'packages people \'npm install\' a lot'  }

options

host [string | required] - URL of webpage you are wanting to scrape.

elements [string | required] - String that you will be searching.

start String before the value you are searching for. For instance - <title>value</title>: In this example, the header would be <title>. If using the needle method, both start and end are required

end String after the value you are searching for. For instance - <title>value</title>: In this example, the header would be </title>. If using the needle method, both start and end are required

el [string] Element id/class to get value of. Can also be declared like: #el > a to get value of the link.

callback [function] - Function that returns data after scraping is finished.

error [string] - Hold error if one was encountered during the scraping process.

data [string] - Holds object of data returned from the scraper.