/node-web-scrapping

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Basic Web Scrapping Tool

Extracting Hacker News feeds and creating a CSV file

⚠️ make sure to use URL that allows web scrapping or it might cause a problem legally ⚠️

Objective

Learn how to scrape web using Javascript

How to?

  • Clone the repository.
  • Make sure you have Node and NPM installed in your system.
    • Use npm -v and node -v to check if it's installed.
  • In terminal change the directory to the repository and run npm i to install the required dependencies.
  • Final step: run node index in terminal.
  • You can see post.csv file that gets generated with the extracted data.