I wrote spider for this but I haven't kept up with maintaining it:

https://github.com/mikeal/spider

If you end up using it and have improvements to make i'll add you as a 
contributor.

-Mikeal

On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:44AM, Tim Killian <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
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