lvyachao / Timbr_V1

A web service that turns an arbitrary web page into structural JSON data and easy-to-use APIs with just a few clicks

Project Timber

Timbr is a web service/application that turns an arbitrary web page into structure JSON data, it provides a friendly interface allow users without programming experiences to let our application know which part of data you want with a few clicks.

Motiviation/ Who can use

There two challenges toward web crawler/scrapers:

1. No Unique web crawler/scrapers for every websites due to different DOM structure and design of different websites.
2. Writing Web Crawler/scrapers need programming experience/skills.

These two reasons are main reasons Project Timbr come out! Ideally, we want to create a Unique web application (combining crawlering and scraping tasks) for every websites. We provide a friendly interface letting every people (with none or few programming skills) click their mouse few times and our application can know how to deal with all the tasks!

V 1.0

This version is an early but stable version. Currently version is under re-design.

Installation

1. You need a NodeJS environment: NodeJS
2. Clone the git repo and do following commands on your terminal!

git clone https://github.com/lvyachao/Timbr_V1.git
cd timber
./install.sh
./watch.sh

3. our shell scripts install Meteor (An early version)

Run Website

• Change directory to project root

meteor

License

The MIT License (MIT)