HTML table scraping code using cheerio.js

tableScraping.js

// table scraping code

var fs = require('fs')
  // , cheerio = require('cheerio')
  , _ = require('lodash');

// var html = fs.readFileSync('./target.html', 'utf-8');
// var $ = cheerio.load(html);

// take cheerio object(dom) and returns cheerio object(table)
var findTableWithString = function(html, string) {
  var tables = html('body').find('table')
    .filter(function(i, e) {
      return html(this).html().indexOf(string) != -1;
    })
    .map(function(i, e) {
      return {'length': html(this).html().length, 'node': html(this)};
    });
  var tables = _.toArray(tables);
  var result = _.reduce(tables, function(acc, curr) {
    if (acc.length < curr.length) return acc;
    else return curr;
  });
  return result.node;
};

// var shortestTable = findTableWithString($, '6-1-1');
// console.log(shortestTable.html());

exports.findTableWithString = findTableWithString;