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🐾 lycos.js

All the goodies you'll ever need to scrape the web

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In-browser Playground

You can try the library on codesandbox, it uses a cors proxy fetcher to let you grab contents from any website inside your browser.

Installation

yarn add lycos # or npm i lycos

Features

  • ⚡️️ All in one package to fetch and scrape data from the web
  • ⭐ Node & Browser Support
  • 💡 Powerful declarative API
  • 🚀 Blazingly fast (supports concurrency)
  • 🔧 Extensible

Quick Example

const lycos = require('lycos'); (async () => { // Fetch the given url and return a page scraper const page = await lycos.get('http://quotes.toscrape.com'); // Scrape all the quotes elements const quoteElements = page.scrapeAll('.quote'); // For each quote element, scrape the text and the author  const quotes = quoteElements.map(element => ({ text: element.scrape('.text').text(), author: element.scrape('.author').text() })); // Shortcut to scrape the collection of quotes const quotes = page.scrapeAll('.quote', { author: '.author@text', text: '.text@text' }); // Shortcut to fetch and scrape const quotes = await lycos .get('http://quotes.toscrape.com') .scrapeAll('.quote', { author: '.author@text', text: '.text@text' }); })();

Credits

• FB55: his work reprensents the core of this library.

• Matt Mueller and cheerio contributors : A good portion of the code and concepts are copied/derived from the cheerio and x-ray libraries.

License

MIT © 2019 Jimmy Laurent

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