Someone has already mentioned using cheerio, and I second that. I built a basic web crawler/scraper using nothing but the requests and cheerio libraries and it worked great. If you already know JQuery you already know how to use Cheerio, which was also a big plus for me.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:09:48 PM UTC-8, Victor Hooi wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if anybody knows of any web-scraping frameworks in Node.JS? > > Previously, there was node.io (https://github.com/chriso/node.io), > however, the project was recently discontinued. > > Googling for Node.JS and web scraping, most of the guides online just talk > about using requests and cheerio - it works, but you need to handle a whole > bunch of things yourself (throttling, distributing jobs, configuration, > managing jobs etc.). > > On the Python side, I know of Scrapy (https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy), > which is using Twisted for asynchronicity > > On the Ruby side, Nokogiri (http://nokogiri.org/) is meant to be good, > although I haven't dived into it much. > > Is there anything equivalent in the Node world? Or what approaches are > people using to tackle this problem? > > Cheers, > Victor > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
