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A Node.js scraper for humans.
$ npm i --save scrape-it
const scrapeIt = require("scrape-it")
// Promise interface
scrapeIt("https://ionicabizau.net", {
title: ".header h1"
, desc: ".header h2"
, avatar: {
selector: ".header img"
, attr: "src"
}
}).then(page => {
console.log(page)
})
// Callback interface
scrapeIt("https://ionicabizau.net", {
// Fetch the articles
articles: {
listItem: ".article"
, data: {
// Get the article date and convert it into a Date object
createdAt: {
selector: ".date"
, convert: x => new Date(x)
}
// Get the title
, title: "a.article-title"
// Nested list
, tags: {
listItem: ".tags > span"
}
// Get the content
, content: {
selector: ".article-content"
, how: "html"
}
}
}
// Fetch the blog pages
, pages: {
listItem: "li.page"
, name: "pages"
, data: {
title: "a"
, url: {
selector: "a"
, attr: "href"
}
}
}
// Fetch some other data from the page
, title: ".header h1"
, desc: ".header h2"
, avatar: {
selector: ".header img"
, attr: "src"
}
}, (err, page) => {
console.log(err || page)
})
// { articles:
// [ { createdAt: Mon Mar 14 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (EET),
// title: 'Pi Day, Raspberry Pi and Command Line',
// tags: [Object],
// content: '<p>Everyone knows (or should know)...a" alt=""></p>\n' },
// { createdAt: Thu Feb 18 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (EET),
// title: 'How I ported Memory Blocks to modern web',
// tags: [Object],
// content: '<p>Playing computer games is a lot of fun. ...' },
// { createdAt: Mon Nov 02 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (EET),
// title: 'How to convert JSON to Markdown using json2md',
// tags: [Object],
// content: '<p>I love and ...' } ],
// pages:
// [ { title: 'Blog', url: '/' },
// { title: 'About', url: '/about' },
// { title: 'FAQ', url: '/faq' },
// { title: 'Training', url: '/training' },
// { title: 'Contact', url: '/contact' } ],
// title: 'Ionică Bizău',
// desc: 'Web Developer, Linux geek and Musician',
// avatar: '/images/logo.png' }
There are few ways to get help:
Please post questions on Stack Overflow. You can open issues with questions, as long you add a link to your Stack Overflow question.
For bug reports and feature requests, open issues. :bug:
For direct and quick help, you can use Codementor. :rocket:
scrapeIt(url, opts, cb)
A scraping module for humans.
url
: The page url or request options.opts
: The options passed to scrapeHTML
method.cb
: The callback function.scrapeIt.scrapeHTML($, opts)
Scrapes the data in the provided element.
Cheerio $
: The input element.
Object opts
: An object containing the scraping information.
If you want to scrape a list, you have to use the listItem
selector:
listItem
(String): The list item selector.data
(Object): The fields to include in the list objects:
<fieldName>
(Object|String): The selector or an object containing:
selector
(String): The selector.convert
(Function): An optional function to change the value.how
(Function|String): A function or function name to access the
value.attr
(String): If provided, the value will be taken based on
the attribute name.trim
(Boolean): If false
, the value will not be trimmed
(default: true
).closest
(String): If provided, returns the first ancestor of
the given element.eq
(Number): If provided, it will select the nth element.texteq
(Number): If provided, it will select the nth direct text child.
Deep text child selection is not possible yet.
Overwrites the how
key.listItem
(Object): An object, keeping the recursive schema of
the listItem
object. This can be used to create nested lists.Example:
{
articles: {
listItem: ".article"
, data: {
createdAt: {
selector: ".date"
, convert: x => new Date(x)
}
, title: "a.article-title"
, tags: {
listItem: ".tags > span"
}
, content: {
selector: ".article-content"
, how: "html"
}
, traverseOtherNode: {
selector: ".upperNode"
, closest: "div"
, convert: x => x.length
}
}
}
}
If you want to collect specific data from the page, just use the same
schema used for the data
field.
Example:
{
title: ".header h1"
, desc: ".header h2"
, avatar: {
selector: ".header img"
, attr: "src"
}
}
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If you are using this library in one of your projects, add it in this list. :sparkles:
3abn
—A 3ABN radio client in the terminal.bandcamp-scraper
(by Simon Thiboutôt)—A scraper for https://bandcamp.comblankningsregistret
(by tornilssonohrn@gmail.com)—>FI will on a daily basis, normally shortly after 15:30, publish significant net short positions in shares in the document below. sourceblockchain-notifier
(by Sebastián Osorio)—Receive notifications about the actual state of a currencycamaleon
(by Julian David)—Installable module, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Quickly view information about any exercise available in Udebug and UVA Judge.cevo-lookup
(by Zack Boehm)—Searchs the CEVO Suspension List for bans by SteamIDcodementor
—A scraper for codementor.io.degusta-scrapper
(by yohendry hurtado)—desgusta scrapper for alexa skilldncli
(by Edgard Kozlowski)—CLI to browse designernews.codo-fn
(by selfrefactor)—common functions used by I Learn Smarter projectjishon
(by chee)—take a search term and get json from jishomit-ocw-scraper
—MIT-OCW-Scrapermix-dl
(by Luandro)—Download youtube mix for list of artists using youtube-dl.parn
(by Slim Shady)—It installs hex packages in the elixir app from http://hex.pm.picarto-lib
(by Sochima Nwobia)—Basic Library to make interfacing with picarto easierproxylist
(by self_refactor)—Get free proxy listrs-api
(by Alex Kempf)—Simple wrapper for RuneScape APIs written in node.sahibinden
(by Cagatay Cali)—Simple sahibinden.com botsahibindenServer
(by Cagatay Cali)—Simple sahibinden.com bot server sidescrape-vinmonopolet
—selfrefactor
(by selfrefactor)—common functions used by I Learn Smarter projectsgdq-collector
(by Benjamin Congdon)—Collects Twitch / Donation information and pushes data to Firebasetrump-cabinet-picks
(by Linda Haviv)—NYT cabinet predictions for Trump admin.ubersetzung
(by self_refactor)—translate words with examples from German to Englishui-studentsearch
(by Rakha Kanz Kautsar)—API for majapahit.cs.ui.ac.id/studentsearchuniversity-news-notifier
(by Çağatay Çalı)—Have your own open-source university feed notifier..uniwue-lernplaetze-scraper
(by Falco Nogatz)—Scraper daemon to monitor the occupancy rate of study working spaces in the libraries of the University of Würzburg, Germany.FAQs
A Node.js scraper for humans.
The npm package scrape-it receives a total of 4,941 weekly downloads. As such, scrape-it popularity was classified as popular.
We found that scrape-it demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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