web scraping with NodeJS
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users reference it as the tutorial they followed (or whose code they copied) when their own cheerio and request-promise scrapers return empty or wrong results.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What it is
A roughly 34-minute tutorial by Hitesh Choudhary on web scraping with Node.js, built around request-promise and cheerio and ending with the scraped data exported to CSV. He codes it live and walks through fetching a page, selecting elements and saving the results.
What people said
Cites umshi · 2020-05 · Stack Overflow · on “I am trying to scrape a wikipedia page in nodejs”
I am trying to scrape a wikipedia page [LINK] . My target is to store all 50 rows in the table to csv file. But I am not able to do so. Please find the code attached. // Importing necessary modules const request = require("request-promise") const cheerio = require("cheerio") const fs = require("fs") const json2csv = require("json2csv").Parser // page which i want to scrape const wiki = " [LINK] "; (async () => { // this will store the data let data = []; // making request const response = await request({ uri: wiki, headers: { accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9", "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflat
Cites sachuverma · 2021-02 · Stack Overflow · on “cheerio not getting response back after web scraping”
I wanted to scrape a website's data, so I tried it using cheerio npm package The selector works perfectly fine in chrome dev tools let commodity_array = $( "#tdm_base_scroll > div > div.dt_ta_09 > div.dt_ta_10" ) .text() .split("\n"); console.log(commodity_array); [LINK] But while using in my code it return empty response My Code: const request = require("request-promise"), cheerio = require("cheerio"), fs = require("fs"), json2csv = require("json2csv").Parser; const url = " [LINK] "; (async () => { let mandiData = []; const response = await request({ uri: url, headers: { accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/sig
Cites Malik · 2021-06 · Stack Overflow · on “how to resolve the javascipt code using cheerio data-scraping”
I have watched the video on [this video] then I want to practice the code in a different way. I want to extract the data from imdbdata [LINK] website then how to resolve the issue JS code. Getting data from IMDB website const option = { uri: " [LINK] ", headers: { Accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br", "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5", }, json: true, transform: (body) => cheerio.load(body), }; request-promise code await rp(option) .then(($) => { process.stdout.write("loading...\n"); let table = []; $("tbody[class='lister-list'] tr").each((i, el) => { //self call function process.stdout.write(`.`); let link =