scrpr

scrpr is a lightweight scraper multitool. it can fetch data via https, detect changes and parse the most common formats.

Usage Example

const scrpr = require("scrpr");

const scraper = scrpr({
	concurrency: 5,
	cachedir: '/tmp/scraper-cache',
});


scraper("https://example.org/data.csv", { 
	parse: "csv", 
}, function(err, change, data){

	if (err) console.error(err);
	if (change) console.log(data);
	
});

scrpr(opts) → function scraper

Constructor, returns scraper function

Opts:

• concurrency — number of parallel requests; default: 1
• cachedir — directory to save cache data in; default: <root module>/.scrpr-cache

scraper([url], [opts], [callback(err, change, data)])

Scraper, delivers data

Opts:

• method — http method; default: get
• url — URL, alternative to url parameter
• headers — additional http request headers, default: {}
• data — http data to be sent, default: null
• cache — use cache, default: true
• cacheid — override cache id, default: hash(url, opts)
• parse — format to parse, default: null (raw data)
• successCodes — array of http status codes considered successful, default: [ 200 ]
• needle — options passed on to needle, default {}
• xlsx — options passed on to xlsx, default {}
• xsv — options passed on to xsv, default {}
• pdf — options passed on to pdf.js-extract, default {}
• preprocess(data, callback(err, data)) — modify data before parsing
• postprocess(data, callback(err, data)) — modify data after parsing
• stream — deliver data as ReadableStream — no parsing or processing, default: false
• metaredirects — follow <meta http-equiv="refresh"> style redirects, default: false
• iconv — decode stream or data as this charset with iconv-lite before parsing, default: false
• cooldown — microseconds since last fetch before a resource is fetched again, default: false
• sizechange — treat unchanged content-length as same file, default: false

Callback:

• err — contains Error or null
• change — true if data changed
• data — raw or parsed data when changed, otherwise status string

Parsers

• csv — Comma Seperated Values; data is an Object, parsed with xsv
• tsv — Tab Separated Values; data is an Object, parsed with xsv
• ssv — Semicolon Separated Values (data has been exported "as csv" with some localizations of Microsoft Excel): data is an Object, parsed with xsv
• xml — eXtensible Markup Language; data is an Object, parsed with xml2js
• json — JavaScript object Notation; data is an Object, parsed natively
• html — HyperText Markup Language; data is an instance of cheerio
• yaml — YAML Ain't Markup Language; data is an Object, parsed with yaml
• xlsx — Office Open XML Workbook; data is an Object, parsed with xlsx; { "<sheetname>": [ [ cell, cell, cell, ... ], ... ] }
• pdf — Portable Document Format; data is an Object, parsed with pdf.js-extract;
• kdl — KDL Document Language; data is an Object, parsed with kdljs;
• dw — Datawrapper Visualisation; data is an Object, extracted with dataunwrapper;

FTP

Rudimentary handling for ftp URLs is available if the optional get-uri dependency is installed.

Local Files

Rudimentary handling for local files is available with the file:/ pseude-protocol.

Optional dependencies

xsv, xlsx, xml2js, yaml, cheerio, dataunwrapper, iconv-lite, kdljs, pdf.js-extract and get-uri are optional dependencies. They should only be installed if their use is required.

License

UNLICENSE