Hi, I just wrote a easy-to-use scrapper in JS as a part of my past work. It can extract data from html pages based on predefined schema which consists of css selectors and a data extraction function. It is available at https://github.com/harish2704/html-scrapper It uses cheerio for dom parsing.
On Thursday, 16 January 2014 07:39:48 UTC+5:30, 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/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/757bfac0-4d96-42be-8b2c-58d5ed1a022b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
