subreddit-wiki-scrapper

Subreddit-Wiki-Scrapper

About

subreddit-wiki-scrapper lets you download any subreddit's wiki and archive it.

currently only the html will be downloaded without any styling to it

Installing

npm i subreddit-wiki-scrapper

Usage

Suppose you want to archive the Piracy subreddit's wiki

const SWS = require("subreddit-wiki-scrapper")

SWS("piracy", "./piracy-wiki", { chromiumPath: 'C:\\path\\for\\chromium.exe' })

This will download the wiki in the piracy-wiki directory

if the given subreddit doesn't have a wiki, an empty .nowiki file will be placed in the dirctory

NOTE: only a chromium browser will work, firefox will NOT work

Arguments

1. subreddit name
2. installation path relatively to the current working directory loacation, to avoid cwd path, use an absolute path
3. options
   • chromiumPath - the path for a chromium browser to run in it - required
   • headless - whether to run chromium in headless mode or not - default true
   • silent - operate in silent mode, there will be no logs in the terminal - default true