juangm / captureAds

Automated capturing of specific ad units and their contained ad tiles on a given page.

Capturing ADS

Description

• Automated capturing of specific ad units
• Generate JSON file with ads location in page
• Generate image .png with ads marked in red

Requirements

Run locally without using docker:

• Node at least version 10.13.0
• Yarn

Run locally using docker:

• Docker
• Docker-compose

Run

Run locally without using docker and docker-compose:

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Run the script
node index.js

Run locally using docker:

# Build the image
docker-compose build ad-track

# Start the container and open a bash console
docker-compose run --rm ad-track bash

# Run the script (using xvfb because headless not working with extensions)
xvfb-run node index.js

Problems found:

Necessary to scroll to the bottom of the page for capturing ads:

• Not all the ads are loaded at the beginning but dynamically when the user scrolls

Security Audit

✔️ At 29.04.2020 there is no security vulnerabilities in any of the 51 packages used.