picky-scrape v0.0.2

Picky Scrape

Node.js CLI program for picky part of a site, extracting plain html and writing it to file. This is handy for copying plain content from one site to another with out having extract the data manaully and rewrite html.

Installation

$ npm install -g picky-scrape

Usage

$ picky-scrape [URL] [SELECTOR] [ELEMENT_INDEX] [OUTPUT_FILE] (Optional)

Example: On the page https://www.irishtimes.com/ find the first element with class=".trendingarticles" and print its contents to console

$ picky-scrape https://www.irishtimes.com/ .trendingarticles 0

Add the last argument option to write result to file

$ picky-scrape https://www.irishtimes.com/ .trendingarticles 0 trending-articles.html