lucastimmons / Basic-web-scraper

Simple web scraper template done in node using express, request, cheerio and fs.

Basic-web-scraper

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.

• Make sure you have node set up first. That is important.

• Put these files into a directory. Open your terminal window to that directory.

• Install your dependencies by running (in your terminal): npm install

• Open server.js and change what you want to. Save the file

• In your terminal run: node server.js

• Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8081/scrape

• 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