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goodreads-quote-scraper

v1.0.4

Published

A nightmarejs based webscraper for collecting quotes of a given author from [goodreads.com](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=george+bernard+shaw&commit=Search). The quotes are then saved as a prettified json file in your root direc

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goodreads-quote-scraper

A nightmarejs based webscraper for collecting quotes of a given author from goodreads.com. The quotes are then saved as a prettified json file in your root directory.

The quotes are ordered as on goodreads i.e. most liked first. Only quotes attributed to the author are written to the final file.

Installation

npm install --save goodreads-quote-scraper

Note: electron can take some time to download.

NPM

Usage

The API takes three arguments, the third being optional.

  1. [string] - The author who's quotes you wish to scrape
  2. [Number] - The number of pages you wish to scrape (Goodreads has 20 quotes per page).
  3. [Boolean] - Whether or not you want the electron instance to show. Default is false.
//index.js

const goodreads = require('goodreads-quote-scraper');

goodreads('george bernard shaw', 2, true);

To batch quote scraping from a number of authors

getQuotes();

async function getQuotes(){
  try{
    await goodreads('ralph waldo emerson', 2);
    await goodreads('mark twain', 5);
    await goodreads('harper lee', 1);
  }
  catch(err){
    console.log(err);
  }
}

Output

A message is logged to the console when the file has been written

george bernard shaw is complete!
├── node_modules
├── index.js
├── george-bernard-shaw.json
//george-bernard-shaw.json

[
    {
        "quote": "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.",
        "author": "George Bernard Shaw"
    },
    {
        "quote": "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.",
        "author": "George Bernard Shaw"
    },
    ...