/littleshovel

Simple functions to scrape websites

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

littleshovel

Realized there is already stuff out there for this. Deprecated :|

Simple functions to scrape websites

Installation

var littleshovel = require('littleshovel');

littleshovel.get("http://google.com", function(data){
  console.log(data);
});

Reference

get(url, callback)

  • url - URL of site you want to get
  • callback - Called when data from site is returned. Receives response body as parameter.

Calls a get request to given url

getText(url, callback)

  • url - URL of site you want to get
  • callback - Called when data from site is returned. Receives text of response as parameter.

Experimental

getSearchForType(type, searchString, callback)

getTextSearchForType(type, searchString, callback)

Contributing

LittleShovel is very early in development. Any help would be appreciated (new features or feature requests or refactoring or... anything!)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Brandon Truong. Released under the MIT License