goodreads-quotes

Easily scrape quotes from the goodreads.com site by tags, author or book.

Installing

npm i goodreads-quotes

Basic Usage

const goodreadsQuotes = require("goodreads-quotes");

// Takes in an array of compatible URLs. See Compatible URLs below.
goodreadsQuotes.scrapeURLs(["https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4918776.Seneca"]);

Saves to file output/4918776.Seneca.json JSON array in the form of:

[
  {
      "author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca",
      "quote": [
        "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
      ],
      "book": "",
      "likes": 2212,
      "tags": [
        "perseverance",
        "suicide",
        "survival"
      ]
    },
    ... 1666 and more
]

If a file of a URL exists it will not be scraped again.

Compatible URLs

Links should ideally not have ?page=number at the end and should follow types below:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1244.Mark_Twain (Author) https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3204327-the-fellowship-of-the-ring (Book) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/strength (Tag)

Built With

• cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Authors

Written by mahsheikhdir

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.