#Osmosis
HTML/XML parser and web scraper for NodeJS.
##Features
- Fast: uses libxml C bindings
- Lightweight: no dependencies like jQuery, cheerio, or jsdom
- Clean: promise based interface- no more nested callbacks
- Flexible: supports both CSS and XPath selectors
- Predictable: same input, same output, same order
- Detailed logging for every step
- Easy debugging with built-in stack size and memory usage reporting
###Coming soon:
DOM support with the ability to run scripts and CSS without a headless browser. Scripting support will allow Osmosis to access dynamically generated content. CSS support will allow Osmosis to access background-image, element size, colors, etc.
##Example: scrape all craigslist listings
var osmosis = require('osmosis');
osmosis
.get('www.craigslist.org/about/sites')
.find('h1 + div a')
.set('location')
.follow('@href')
.find('header + div + div li > a')
.set('category')
.follow('@href')
.find('p > a', '.totallink + a.button.next:first')
.follow('@href')
.set({
'title': 'section > h2',
'description': '#postingbody',
'subcategory': 'div.breadbox > span[4]',
'date': 'time@datetime',
'latitude': '#map@data-latitude',
'longitude': '#map@data-longitude',
'images[]': 'img@src'
})
.data(function(listing) {
// do something with listing data
})##Install
npm install osmosis
##Documentation
For documentation and examples check out https://github.com/rc0x03/node-osmosis/wiki
##Dependencies