Simple web scraper template. It scrapes the Jeopardy Questions from a J-archive.com page and then outputs it as a json file. It's very easy to modify to suit your needs. You'll need to know Jquery selectors to make this work.
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Make sure you have node set up first. That is important.
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Put these files into a directory. Open your terminal window to that directory.
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Install your dependencies by running (in your terminal):
npm install
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Open
server.js
and change what you want to. Save the file -
In your terminal run: node
server.js
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Open your browser and navigate to
http://localhost:8081/scrape
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Go back to your console
##About the license
This is distributed under the MIT License, and developed by Lucas Timmons. Read more about the MIT License.# Basic-web-scraper