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Simple example to scrape some posts and put into a CSV file using Node & Cheerio
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const request = require('request'); | |
const cheerio = require('cheerio'); | |
const fs = require('fs'); | |
const writeStream = fs.createWriteStream('post.csv'); | |
// Write Headers | |
writeStream.write(`Title,Link,Date \n`); | |
request('http://codedemos.com/sampleblog', (error, response, html) => { | |
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { | |
const $ = cheerio.load(html); | |
$('.post-preview').each((i, el) => { | |
const title = $(el) | |
.find('.post-title') | |
.text() | |
.replace(/\s\s+/g, ''); | |
const link = $(el) | |
.find('a') | |
.attr('href'); | |
const date = $(el) | |
.find('.post-date') | |
.text() | |
.replace(/,/, ''); | |
// Write Row To CSV | |
writeStream.write(`${title}, ${link}, ${date} \n`); | |
}); | |
console.log('Scraping Done...'); | |
} | |
}); |
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