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scrapq

v2.1.1

Published

Lightweight Typescript library for scrapping html

Downloads

25

Readme

ScrapQ

Lightweight Typescript library for scrapping html with type inference and intellisense.

About

There are plenty scrapping libs out there, but only few with full Typescript support - Typescript will infer type based on your query. This is small library with only one purpose to provide scrapping in human readable format with full Typescript support like intellisense and type inference.

Examples

To see Basic examples, please visit ./test/basic.test.ts

Or Advanced example, please visit ./test/exhaustive/agescx.test.ts

Hacker news

import { scrap, $ } from 'scrapq';

// `fetch` is not included in library, use your own implementation
const html = fetch('https://news.ycombinator.com/').toString();

const data = scrap(html, {
    articles: $.list('.athing', {  // for every '.athing' selected element in document
        title: $.text('.title > a'), // get text from '.title > a'
        link: $.link('.title > a'), // get link (href attr) from '.title > a'
        website: $.text('.title > span.sitebit'), // get text
    });
});

console.log(data);
// {
//   articles: [
//       ...,
//       {
//          title: 'The tools humanity will need for living in the year 1 trillion',
//          website: 'phys.org',
//          link: 'https://phys.org/news/2018-06-tools-humanity-year-trillion.html'
//       },
//       ...
//     ]
// }

Custom

import { scrap, $ } from 'scrapq';

const STR_TO_SCRAP = `
    <h1 class="title">Hello</h1>
    <ul>
        <li><span>Guten Tag</span></li>
        <li><span>Ciao</span></li>
        <li><span>Bonjour</span></li>
    </ul>
    <a class="link" href="/read-more">read more ...</a>
`;

const result = scrap(STR_TO_SCRAP, {
    title: $.text('h1.title'),
    items: $.list('ul>li', {
        text: $.text('span')
    }),
    link: $.link('a.link')
});

console.log(result);
// {
//   title: 'Hello',
//   items: [
//      { text: 'Guten Tag' },
//      { text: 'Ciao' },
//      { text: 'Bonjour' }
//   ]
// }

or just

import { scrap, $ } from 'scrapq';

const result = scrap(STR_TO_SCRAP, {
    title: $.text('h1.title'),
    texts: $.list('ul>li', $.text('span')),
    link: $.link('a.link')
});

API

scrap(html: string, query: Query)

use to scrap json from html. Structure of your output is defined as query. To define query, use selectors or controls below/

Selectors

$.text(selector: string): string

get text from an element

$.attr(selector: string, htmlAttribute: string): string

get attribute from an element

$.html(selector: string): string

get html

$.count(selector: string): number

get elements count

$.exist(selector: string): boolean

check if element exists

Controls

$.list(selector: string, query: Query | QueryType, predicate?): Array<query>

get list of items