Screen Scrape Papercall.io

README.md

Papercall's free version doesn't have a public API, so this is a stupid simple way to get a pseudo-CSV of all the submissions on a page.

snippet.js

(() => {
    let submissions = document.querySelector('.table--stack').querySelectorAll('tbody tr');
    const datum = [];
    for (const el of submissions) {
        const s = {};
        const i = el.querySelector('td:first-child');
        const url = i.querySelector('a:first-child').getAttribute('href');
        const title = i.querySelector('a:first-child strong').textContent.trim();
        let author = '';
        for (const cn of i.childNodes) {
            if (cn.nodeType === 3) {
                author += cn.textContent.trim().replace(',','');
            }
        }
        s.title = title;
        s.author = author;
        s.url = url;
        const location = i.querySelector('small');
        if (location) {
            s.location = location.textContent.trim().replace('/','');
        }
        datum.push(s);
    }
    for (const d of datum) {
        console.log(`"${d.title}","https://www.papercall.io${d.url}","${d.author}","${d.location}"`);
    }
})();