1.2.66 • Published 2 months ago

syphonx v1.2.66

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License
MIT
Repository
github
Last release
2 months ago

SyphonX is a tool that extracts data from HTML data, transforming it into JSON of any shape or size. It combines the power of CSS Selectors and jQuery, Regular Expressions, and Javascript into a declarative template format to elegantly solve the simplest to the most complex data extraction problems.

Try it now from the Command-Line

Run the following from the command-line with Node.js v18 or higher...

npx syphonx run $/examples/weather.yaml

The above command should produce an output similar to the below which is the result of extracting the current weather conditions from https://weather.com/weather/today/.

"Anaheim, CA As of 6:55 pm PST 54° Cloudy Day 67° • Night 49° Cloudy alertLevel2 Gale Warning +6 More"

Learn more

Try it now from Code

  1. npm init es6 -y to create a new project
  2. yarn add syphonx to install the syphonx dependency
  3. touch index.js and add the code below to the file
import * as syphonx from "syphonx"
const template = await syphonx.fetchTemplate("$/examples/weather.yaml")
const result = await syphonx.online(template)
console.log(result.data)
  1. node index.js to run

This should produce an output similar to the below which is the result of extracting the current weather conditions from https://weather.com/weather/today/.

"Anaheim, CA As of 6:55 pm PST 54° Cloudy Day 67° • Night 49° Cloudy alertLevel2 Gale Warning +6 More"