OLXScrapper

OLXScrapper is a simple web scraper designed to enhance search capabilities for the OLX website. It allows you to search and extract relevant information from the OLX platform using a given query, providing a basic foundation for a better search engine.

Features

Scrape search results from OLX
Uses Cheerio for HTML parsing
Utilizes Axios for HTTP requests
Manages concurrent requests with p-queue

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

Node.js (v14.x or higher)
npm (comes with Node.js)

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/puksh/olxscrapper.git

Navigate into the project directory:
```
cd olxscrapper
```
Install the dependencies:
```
npm install
```

Running the Server

Once the dependencies are installed, you can start the server:

npm start

This will run the server on your local machine. You can then send queries to the server to scrape results from OLX.

Usage

You can search up anything through the search bar on the website

Dependencies

axios: HTTP client for making requests.
cheerio: Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery for parsing HTML.
express: Web framework for Node.js.
p-queue: Promise queue with concurrency control.

Author

Pukash - Creator and maintainer.

License

I don't know what license I should use but I think it's probably MIT

puksh / olxScrapper