Cheerio scrape gist with Meteor

main.js

/*
packages
meteorhacks:npm
meteorhacks:async

node modules
request
cheerio

*/



// Something like Calling a method inside a template to past the result inside a session variable

//initiate scraping
//encoding should be "binary" to deal with UTF-8 content
			Meteor.call("scrape", scrapeURL, scrapeSelector, scrapeEncoding, scrapeOutput, function (err, res) {
				if (err) console.log("Error calling scraper" + err);
				Session.set("scraperRaw", res);
				return "Scraped Successfully";
			});

scraper.js

// in server/ folder

Meteor.methods({
	'scrape': function scrape(url, cssSelector, encoding, scrapeOutput) {
		var request = new Meteor.npmRequire('request');
		var cheerio = new Meteor.npmRequire('cheerio');

		var response = Async.runSync(function(done) {
			request({uri: url, encoding: encoding}, function(err, resp, body) {

				if (err) return new Meteor.Error(500 ,"Scraper requires http:// - Protocol as URL", err);
				if (resp.statusCode != 200) return new Meteor.Error(500 ,"URL responds with " + resp.statusCode, resp);


				//load desired html section
				var $ = cheerio.load(body);
				var selection = $(cssSelector);

				if (scrapeOutput == "text") {
					done (null, $(selection).text());
				} else {
					done (null, $(selection).html());
				}

			});
		});

		return response.result;
	}
});