Get the title of the first result of a book search on Amazon using web scraping.

getFirstTitle.js

/* 
1. go to https://www.amazon.com/
2. search "programing books"
3. open the browser javascript console  
*/

// Get the list of elements of the parent element. It returns a NodeList and we convert it into an array to be able to traverse it.
const elementList = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[data-component-type="s-search-result"]'));

// Initialize an array to store the names of the books
let namesElementList= [];

for(let element of elementList){
    
    // Get the element where the name of the workbook is found
    let divElement = element.getElementsByClassName('a-spacing-none')[1];

    // Get the title of the book and save it in the array
    namesElementList.push(divElement.querySelector('span').innerText)

}

console.log(namesElementList);

// Display the name of the first element
console.log(namesElementList[0]);