gistfile1.js

var sys = require('sys');
var fs = require('fs');
var connect = require('./connect/lib/connect');
var http = require('http');

function getDirections(data, callback) {
    requestStr = "/m/directions?dirflg=r&saddr=" + escape(data.from) + "&daddr=" + escape(data.to);
    
    var client = http.createClient(80, 'www.google.com');
    var request = client.request('GET', requestStr, {'host': 'www.google.com'});
    request.end();
        
    var responseBody = "";           
    request.on('response', function (response) {
        response.setEncoding('utf8');
        
        response.on('data', function (chunk) {
            responseBody += chunk;
        });

        response.on('end', function() {
            var routesRE = new RegExp('<div class="c"[^>]*>(.*?)<\/div>', 'g');
            var testRE = new RegExp('div', 'g');
            callback({ firstRE: responseBody.match(routesRE),
                       test: responseBody.match(testRE),
                       debug: "debug message",
                       rawHTML: responseBody }); 
        });
    }); 
    
}

function main(app) {
    app.get('/', function(req, res){      
        res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });
        
        getDirections({ 
                to:'wow hall, eugene, or', 
                from:'13th and university, eugene, or'
        }, function(data) { 
                res.write( JSON.stringify( data ) );
                console.log( sys.inspect( data ) )
                res.end('blam');
        });

    });    
}

var server = connect.createServer(
    connect.logger(),
    connect.bodyDecoder(),
    connect.router(main),
    connect.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })
).listen(8004);

console.log('Connect server listening on port 8004');