Node.js - Search Engine Parser

This module allows you to search google by scraping the results. You can add your own search engine.

Installation

npm install --save search-engine-parser

Built-in strategies

Google Images

Usage

This prints out the first 20 search results of the query kitten in Google Images.

var createParser = require('search-engine-parser');

var googleImagesParser = createParser('google-images');

googleImagesParser.search('kitten', function(err, results){
    results.map(function(result){
        console.log(result);
    });
});

Own search engine

You need to implement Search Strategy interface:

var cheerio = require('cheerio');

var SearchEngineStrategy = {
   getSearchURL : function(query){
       return "http://your-search-engine.com?query=" + query;
   },

   getResults : function(html, callback){
       var $ = cheerio.load(html);
       var imageLinks = $('.link');
       var imageHrefs = [];

       imageLinks.each(function(i, element){
           imageHrefs.push(element.attribs.href);
       });

       callback(null, imageHrefs);
   }
};

Example Google Images strategy.

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