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>' },
	meta: { start: '<meta content="', end: '"'}
}

scrape ('http://www.google.com', elements, (error, data) => {
	if (error) {
		console.log(error);
	} else {
		console.log(data);
	}
});

Above would return:

{
	title: 'Google',
	meta: 'Search the world\'s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you\'re looking for.'
}

options

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

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

start [string | required] - String before the value you are searching for. For instance - <title>value</title>: In this example, the header would be <title>

end (find, replace) [string | required] - String after the value you are searching for. For instance - <title>value</title>: In this example, the header would be </title>

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.