JordanRosas/web-scraping-with-cheerio

web-scraping-with-cheerio

Just a small project that scrapes the web for the presidents and their birthdays and drops that payload into a local json file.

How to run locally:

• this is a node.js project so if you don't have node installed on your machine visit this site: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download the LTS version once installed you can verify by running the node -v command.
• navigate to your workspace directory and clone this repo by typing git clone git@github.com:JordanRosas/web-scraping-with-cheerio.git in your terminal
• cd web-scraping-with-cheerio && npm install
• npm install -g json-server -> I have this installed globally (hence the -g argument) on my system but should be ok to install as a dev dependency by using npm install json-server --save-dev
• open another terminal, navigate to the project directory and run the following command: json-server -w -p 5002 data.json -w is the watch command and -p specifies the port you want it to run on and lastly data.json is the file we are watching.
• in your other terminal window just run the command node potus.js
• after it is done running you should see all 46 presidents in the data.json file result should look like this:

{
    "presidents":[
        {
            "name":"George Washington",
            "birthday": "1732-22-2",
            "id":1
        },
        ...
    ]
}

-!Viola!

I do reccomend poking around the code. Though it is pretty simple it is fun to see how all the pieces work together!