Web Scraper | 2024

A Nodejs script that scrapes metadata & social links from public webpages.

Technology

Node
- Scraper running node version: (v14, v18, v20)
- Node Version Manager nvm
Puppeteer
- Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome
Typescript
- TypeScript is JavaScript with syntax for types. Doc
- Node.Js With TypeScript

Structure

  build
    └── index.js
    └── ...
  config
    └── config.json
  src
    └── pages
        ├── index.ts
        ├── identifiers.ts
    └── environment
        ├── config.ts
    └── utils
        ├── index.ts
    └── index.ts
  types
    └── index.d.ts

build: The latest generated javascript code.
config: Deployment and proxy configuration.
src: The main coding part of the scraper, written by typescript.
types: Type or Interface definition.

Scripts Overview

npm run start:dev

Starts the application in development using nodemon and ts-node to do cold reloading.

npm run build

Builds the app at build, cleaning the folder first.

npm run start

Starts the app in production by first building the project with npm run build, and then executing the compiled JavaScript at build/index.js.

Usage Examples

env DOMAINS=github.com node build/index.js

Response

>> Starting Web Scraper ......
┌─────────┬───────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ (index) │ tries │             identifier              │
├─────────┼───────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│    0    │   0   │ { id: 0, identifier: 'github.com' } │
└─────────┴───────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
>> Queue Size: 1
{ tries: 0, identifier: { id: 0, identifier: 'github.com' } }
// Visiting: https://github.com
// -> Page Loaded
// Data: {
  "initialUrl": "https://github.com",
  "responseCode": 200,
  "finalUrl": "https://github.com/",
  "title": "GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub",
  "contactEmail": [],
  "contactPhone": [],
  "metadata": [
    {
      "route-pattern": "/"
    },
    {
      "route-controller": "dashboard"
    },
    {
      "route-action": "index"
    },
    {
      "current-catalog-service-hash": "40dc28bd654b20f337468a532ff456ed5863889cfbb4e982b793597321d48d3f"
    },
    {
      "request-id": "B59E:172E16:AD767E:CBEE0C:6677EFC3"
    },
    {
      "html-safe-nonce": "2c8c558ed1f4c54fc1ce4db4782175ccf3f61387a7532b21621d61bb1ce58af3"
    },
    {
      "visitor-payload": "eyJyZWZlcnJlciI6IiIsInJlcXVlc3RfaWQiOiJCNTlFOjE3MkUxNjpBRDc2N0U6Q0JFRTBDOjY2NzdFRkMzIiwidmlzaXRvcl9pZCI6IjQwNDI2MjYwMjQ3NzUwODYwMTkiLCJyZWdpb25fZWRnZSI6ImphcGFuZWFzdCIsInJlZ2lvbl9yZW5kZXIiOiJqYXBhbmVhc3QifQ=="
    },
    {
      "visitor-hmac": "5aa2752edec8a09b2fcc3e5dd0051840d0a13530769b56253192bffd8fb762ea"
    },
    {
      "page-subject": "GitHub"
    },
    {
      "github-keyboard-shortcuts": "dashboards,copilot"
    },
    {
      "selected-link": ""
    },
    {
      "google-site-verification": "Apib7-x98H0j5cPqHWwSMm6dNU4GmODRoqxLiDzdx9I"
    },
    {
      "octolytics-url": "https://collector.github.com/github/collect"
    },
    {
      "user-login": ""
    },
    {
      "viewport": "width=device-width"
    },
    {
      "description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and features, power your CI/CD and DevOps workflows, and secure code before you commit it."
    },
    {
      "apple-itunes-app": "app-id=1477376905, app-argument=https://github.com/"
    },
    {
      "twitter:image:src": "https://github.githubassets.com/assets/campaign-social-031d6161fa10.png"
    },
    {
      "twitter:site": "@github"
    },
    {
      "twitter:card": "summary_large_image"
    },
    {
      "twitter:title": "GitHub: Let’s build from here"
    },
    {
      "twitter:description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and fea..."
    },
    {
      "hostname": "github.com"
    },
    {
      "expected-hostname": "github.com"
    },
    {
      "turbo-cache-control": "no-preview"
    },
    {
      "is_logged_out_page": "true"
    },
    {
      "turbo-body-classes": "logged-out env-production page-responsive header-overlay home-campaign"
    },
    {
      "browser-stats-url": "https://api.github.com/_private/browser/stats"
    },
    {
      "browser-errors-url": "https://api.github.com/_private/browser/errors"
    },
    {
      "theme-color": "#1e2327"
    },
    {
      "color-scheme": "light dark"
    }
  ],
  "youtubeLinks": [],
  "socialLinks": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/github",
    "https://www.facebook.com/GitHub",
    "https://x.com/github",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@github",
    "https://github.com/github"
  ]
}

Contributors

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