sandunisuru / Lottery-Result-Scraper

This small NodeJS script use as API for getting daily lottery results.

Lottery Results Scraper with API

Step by Step Guide

Step 1: Clone the repo

Step 2: run cd Lottery-Result-Scraper

Step 3: run npm install

Step 4: This app is run on port 3000. So run the project with

node index.js

if you have nodemon installed,

nodemon index.js

Step 5: You can send API request to this endpoint if you running on locally

localhost:3000/{Lottery provider}/results

(As for now only have NLB so use nlb as provider.)

Method: POST

Sample Request:

{ "name": "supiri-vasana", "date": "2019-03-25" }

Use exact date format (YYYY-MM-DD) and you can use these names for the get relevent lottery results.

Name Request Code	Lottery Name
dhana-nidhanaya	Dhana Nidhanaya
mega-power	Mega Power
mahajana-sampatha	Mahajana Sampatha
govisetha	Govisetha
jathika-sampatha	Jathika Sampatha
delakshapathi	Delakshapathi Double Dreams
neeroga	Neeroga
sampath-rekha	Sampath Rekha
supiri-vasana	Supiri Vasana
vasana-sampatha	Vasana Sampatha
sevana	Sevana
dollar-fortune	Dollar Fortune
super-fifty	Vasana Super Fifty

Then you will Receive this type of sample response.

[
    {
        "name": "Supiri Vasana"
    },
    {
        "date": "2019-03-25"
    },
    {
        "draw_no": "1415"
    },
    {
        "results": [
            "11",
            "39",
            "50",
            "51",
            "61",
            "16",
            "49"
        ]
    }
]

Used Libraries

• Axios
• Express
• Cheerio (https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio)

How to contribute

If any change in Scraped website can cause malfunctioning in the script. So you can report them by creating an issue. If you can solve them or add features open an issue and put a PR.

Hail FOSS!