/Web-Scraper

Simple Web scraping app to scrape all the Indian Presidents (Name and Birthdays) present on Wikipedia.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

What is Web Scraping?

In a nutshell, web scraping means automating the task of collecting useful information from websites. There are many use cases for web scraping, but here are just three ideas: collecting prices from various online stores for a price comparison site, getting flight times and hotel listings for a travel site, even building a search engine like Google!

This repository will walk you through the process with the popular Node.js request-promise module, CheerioJS, and Puppeteer. Working through the examples in this post, we will learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a pro at gathering any data you need with Node.js!

We will be gathering a list of all the names and birthdays of Indian presidents from Wikipedia.

To know how to do it step by step read my blog here.