/fm-favs-scraper

Frontend Masters bookmarked courses meta info converter to Airtable page

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

fm-favs-scraper 🗄️

Grabs meta information of bookmarked courses on Frontend Masters and sends to Airtable page

Preface 💬️

Frontend Masters is a great site with courses for frontend engineers where you can find both deep UI engineering stuff and some unusual courses on Security, Rust, Go or Python, etc.

So here is a tiny tool, which helps me scrap my bookmarked courses' meta data (Author, Course Link, Length, etc.) and store in a more convenient place like Airtable.

Rationale 💡

I have near 35 courses bookmarked, so I decided it will be much more convenient (and obviously more fun) to write a few scripts for that.

Tooling 🛠️

All the magic is done with Puppeeteer, which goes through the Sign in process, finds the right page and fetches the needed meta data. Next phase is writing down this information into Airtable page with a help of Airtable.js and voilà. If the Airtable.js documentation does not look very comprehensive, a lot more useful docs can be found at https://airtable.com/api

Screencast 💻

fm-favs-scrapper-demo