node.io is a distributed data scraping and processing framework
- Jobs are written in Javascript or Coffeescript and run in Node.JS - jobs are concise, asynchronous and FAST
- Includes a robust framework for scraping, selecting and traversing data from the web
- Includes a data validation and sanitization framework
- Easily handle a variety of input / output - files, databases, streams, stdin/stdout, etc.
- Speed up execution by distributing work across multiple processes and (soon) other servers
- Manage & run jobs through a web interface
Follow @nodeio for updates.
Find the pagerank of a domain
$ echo "mastercard.com" | node.io pagerank
=> mastercard.com,7
..or a list of domains
$ node.io pagerank < domains.txt
To install node.io, use npm
$ npm install node.io
If you do not have npm or Node.JS v0.2.5+, see this page.
If you want to create your own scraping / processing jobs, head over to the wiki for documentation, examples and the API.
node.io comes bundled with several modules (including the pagerank example from above). See this page for usage details.
- Finish writing up the wiki
- Fix up the http://node.io/ page
- More tests & improve coverage
- Add more DOM selector / traversal methods
- Add distributed processing
- Cookie jar for persistent cookies
- Generic proxy manager
- Speed improvements
history.md lists recent changes.
If you want to contribute, please fork/pull.
If you find a bug, please report the issue here.
node.io wouldn't be possible without
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Copyright (c) 2010 Chris O'Hara cohara87@gmail.com
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