Matthww / pokget-generator

A tool to scrape plugin information from the PocketMine website to use with a BukGet-like API/database.

PokGet Generator

A tool to scrape plugin information from the PocketMine website to use with a BukGet-like API/database. Code is provided in library form and can be used in other projects, but there's also a complete script to perform a full scrape under examples/.

Requirements

• Node.js or io.js
• Babel

Setup

$ git clone [e-mail]:cubedhost/pokget-generator
$ cd pokget-generator
$ npm install -g babel
$ npm install

We use ES6 / ECMAScript 2015 syntax and there are a couple ways to work with this. Installing Babel globally is optional but recommended.

Using babel-node (recommended)

You can skip manually transpiling the source by using the babel-node CLI. This will run the example script using your system's Node.js/io.js installation.

$ babel-node examples/full-scrape.js

Transpile

You can use babel to transpile the source to ES5 and then use it in non-ES6 projects.

$ babel index.js --out-file index.es5.js

var gen = require('./index.es5');

gen.getLastPageNumber( function (err, lastPageNumber) {
  console.log('There are ' + lastPageNumber + ' total pages of plugins!');
});

Using the Babel require hook

Finally, you can require the babel-bootstrap.js file and use it in non-ES6 projects.

var gen = require('./babel-bootstrap');