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newbie exercise with PhantomJS and web scraping
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#! /bin/env phantomjs | |
/* | |
Teaching myself: | |
- [hopefully] clean/readable JavaScript coding | |
- PhantomJS to render a page from command-line | |
- using CSS selector to scrape an element value from DOM | |
*/ | |
var SYS= require('system'); | |
if(SYS.args.length <2) { | |
console.log('usage: '+ SYS.args[0] +' <Github Username> [CSS Selector]'); | |
phantom.exit(1); | |
} | |
var user= SYS.args[1], | |
query= SYS.args.length <3 | |
? 'h1.vcard-names > span.vcard-fullname' // Full Name | |
// ? 'ul.vcard-details > li.vcard-detail > a.email.js-obfuscate-email' // Email Address | |
: SYS.args[2], | |
WP= require('webpage').create(); | |
//====================================================================== | |
//---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
WP.onLoadFinished= function(status) { | |
if(status !=='success') { | |
console.log('ERROR: '+ status); | |
phantom.exit(1); | |
} | |
var vcard= 'html:root > body.logged_out > div.wrapper > div.site.clearfix > div#site-container\ | |
> div.container > div.columns.profilecols.js-username > div.column.one-fourth.vcard', | |
value= WP.evaluate(getValue, selector= query ? vcard +' > '+ query : vcard); | |
function getValue(selector) { | |
ele= document.querySelector(selector) | |
if(ele.hasOwnProperty('innerHTML')) | |
return ele.innerHTML; | |
else return ''; | |
} | |
console.log(value); | |
phantom.exit(); | |
} | |
//====================================================================== | |
WP.open('https://github.com/'+ user); |
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