igm-scrape v1.0.2

igm-scrape

igm-scrape is a web scraper that pulls data from the IGM Economic Experts Panel at http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel

Note: Currently does not support special surveys

Prerequisites

node.js

npm

Cookie from http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel

How to get cookie

1. Go to http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel
2. Opening your browser dev tools
3. Navigate to the network tab
4. As shown in the follow screenshot, select the igm-economic-experts-panel request, and copy the cookie string beginning with incap_ses

Running

NPM

$ npm i igm-scrape
$ igm-scrape <cookie>

Manual

$ git clone <this repository>
$ cd <cloned dir>
$ node index.js <cookie>

File will be saved to the current directory as igmdata.json

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details