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Created August 20, 2017 03:56
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(Extract) Check the status of a vehicle registration and scrape results.
// Open form and submit enquire for `rego`
function getInfo(rego) {
horseman
.userAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0')
.open(url)
.type('#registration-number-ctrl input[type=text]', rego)
.click('.btn-holder input')
.waitForSelector('.ctrl-holder.ctrl-readonly')
.html()
.then(function(body) {
console.log(processInfo(body, rego));
return horseman.close();
});
}
// Scrape the results for key info
function processInfo(html, rego) {
var $ = cheerio.load(html);
var vehicle = $('label.label').filter(function() {
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Vehicle:';
}).next().text().trim();
var stolen = $('label.label').filter(function() {
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Stolen status:';
}).next().text().trim();
var registration = $('label.label').filter(function() {
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Registration status & expiry date:';
}).next().text().trim();
return {
rego,
vehicle,
stolen,
registration
};
}
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