lawrence-peng / webster

a reliable high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Node.js.

Webster

Overview

Webster is a reliable web crawling and scraping framework written with Node.js, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. Which is different from other crawling framework is that Webster can scrape the content which rendered by browser client side javascript and ajax request.

Docker quick start

pull the example docker image:

docker pull zhuyingda/webster-demo
docker run -it zhuyingda/webster-demo

here is a simple demo for crawler about Baidu search result web page:

node demo_producer.js && node demo_consumer.js

Requirements

• Node.js 8.x+, redis
• Works on Linux, Mac OSX

Or you can deploy on Docker.

Install

npm install webster

Documentation

You can see more details from here.

License

GPL-V3

Copyright (c) 2017-present, Yingda (Sugar) Zhu