bob-the-miner v2.0.0

What ? another web scraper ? ...yeah, that's Bob !

What about reading the doc ?

Install

To use Bob in your own project :

npm install bob-the-miner --save

If you want to contribute :

git clone https://github.com/raoul2000/bob-the-miner.git
cd bob-the-miner
npm install

Test

First start the test local server :

npm run server

Then open another shell run the tests :

npm test

Examples

• extract titles from the nodejs new website

npm run nodejs-news

• extract headlines from the New-York Times website

npm run nyt-headline

• extract packages list from NPM website

npm run npm-crawler

Documentation

Documentation is based on vuepress.

To view the documentation running a local server :

npm run docs:dev

If the error error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported is reported during local dev server startup, try to first define export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider and re-run the command. (see this thread for more)

To build the documentation :

npm run docs:build

Then copy the generated files from docs/.vuepress/dist to another (temporary) folder outside of the project, switch the the branch gh-pages and copy back the files. Then commit and push.