usasnouski / scrapper

A simple web scrapper API

Simple Scrapper

This is a tiny scrapper API that allows to scrape web pages and index their content. It utilizes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL database. If a valid url is provided, scrapper will grab the page's contents inside of heading and link HTML elements and will store it to database.

Installation

Download or git clone this repo.

$ cd scrapper
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rails s

Go to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Content's HTML Elements

Headings:

• <h1>
• <h2>
• <h3>

Links:

• <a>

Endpoints

1. Receive all recorded urls and their content

[GET] http://localhost:3000/api/pages

2. Scrape web page and extract its content within heading and link tags

 [POST] http://localhost:3000/api/pages?url=[valid url]

Responses

Response is JSON Response is JSON:

{
  id: 1,
  url: "http://vsasnouski.me",
  content: {
    h1: ["Vlad Sasnouski", "About me"],
    h2: [
      "Hello!",
      "IndieNoMo",
      "Counter-Stats: GO",
      "Tetris",
      "DOMbledore",
      "Skills",
      "Get in touch"
    ],
    h3: ["Location", "Email", "Phone"],
    a: [
      "#intro",
      "#zero",
      "#one",
      "#two",
      "#three",
      "#zero",
      "assets/vlad_sasnouski_resume.pdf",
      "assets/vlad_sasnouski_resume.pdf",
      "https://indienomo.herokuapp.com/",
      "https://indienomo.herokuapp.com/",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/IndieNoMo",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/DOMbledore/",
      "https://cs-go-33263.firebaseapp.com/",
      "https://github.com/dawah-wadah/demo-parser",
      "https://usasnouski.github.io/Tetris/",
      "https://usasnouski.github.io/Tetris",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/Tetris",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/DOMbledore/",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/DOMbledore",
      "mailto:[e-mail]",
      "https://github.com/usasnouski/",
      "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-sasnouski",
      "https://angel.co/vlad-sasnouski"
    ]
  }
}