CRT Scrapper Library (1.0.4)

Overview

CRT Scrapper Library is a versatile and easy-to-use tool for scraping data from web pages. It provides a robust and flexible framework for performing web scraping tasks on backend technologies such as Node.js and NestJS.

Features

• Scrapes data from web pages based on provided URL and target class
• Supports optional configurations for scraping process
• Provides events for handling various stages of scraping process, including before request, after request, error handling, and more
• Retry logic for handling temporary network issues
• Timeout configuration to prevent long-running requests
• Customizable HTTP headers for requests

Installation

To install CRT Scrapper Library, run the following command:

npm install crt-scrapper

Usage

const { scrapeData } = require('crt-scrapper');

async function getDataFromUrl(url, targetClass) {
    try {
        const result = await scrapeData(url, targetClass, {
            retry: 3,
            timeout: 10000,
            headers: {
                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3',
            },
            beforeRequest: (url) => {
                console.log(`Sending request to ${url}`);
            },
            afterRequest: (response) => {
                console.log(`Received response with status code ${response.status}`);
            },
            onError: (error) => {
                console.error('An error occurred during scraping:', error);
            },
            beforeParse: ($) => {
                console.log('Parsing HTML content...');
            },
            afterParse: (data) => {
                console.log('Scraping completed successfully:', data);
            },
        });

        console.log('Scraped data:', result.data);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Failed to scrape data:', error);
    }
}

/* It will be sufficient if you provide the website you will  scrape and the HTML class whose data you want to get.
*/
getDataFromUrl('https://example.com', '.content');

Documentation

For detailed documentation and API reference, please refer to the API Documentation file.

License

Web Scraper Library is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues or pull requests on GitHub.