2.5.2 • Published 5 years ago
scrapes v2.5.2
Scrapes
Scrapes uses cheerio to parse the content of webpages and returns it.
Installation
To install locally run:
npm install --save scrapes
# Or
npm install -g scrapesUsage
Scrapes can be used inside of node.js scripts and through the command line.
CLI
Documentation is provided for cli commands with the --help option
# Install locally
npm install -g scrapes
scrapes --help
# Use from npx
npx scrapes --helpscrapeSelection
Takes provided string and a query selector. Returns the text content of the elements that match the selector.
import { scrapeSelection } from "scrapes";
const markup = `<!doctype html><html><body><h1>A title</h1></body></html>`;
scrapeSelection(markup, "h1");
//=> 'A title'scrapeLinks
Takes provided string and returns the content of href attributes on any anchor tags in an array.
import { scrapeLinks } from "scrapes";
const markup = `<!doctype html><html><body><a href="/example-path">Link</a></body></html>`;
scrapeLinks(markup);
//=> ['/example-path']prefixLinks
Returns a list of items prefixed with a provided hostname. The prefixing should autoformat, ignoring existing hostnames where specified and adding the correct pathname syntax where it is / isn't provided.
prefixLinks("example.com", [
"newsguidelines.html",
"1",
"mailto:email@example.com",
"/3",
"ftp://ftp.example.com"
]);
/*=>
* [
* "example.com/newsguidelines.html",
* "example.com/1",
* "mailto:email@example.com",
* "example.com/3",
* "ftp://ftp.example.com"
* ]
*/Maintained by @ShaunBulbrook.