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Scrap a website with CasperJs, JSON output.
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var links = []; | |
var quotes = []; | |
var tempUrl = []; | |
var infos = []; | |
var maxLinks = 10; | |
var firstUrl = 'http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&num_votes=5000,&sort=user_rating,desc&start=1&title_type=tv_infoss'; | |
var newUrl; | |
var x = require('casper').selectXPath; | |
var fs = require('fs'); | |
var utils = require('utils'); | |
var casper = require('casper').create({ | |
verbose: true, | |
logLevel: 'error', | |
pageSettings: { | |
loadImages: false, | |
loadPlugins: false, | |
userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.2 Safari/537.36' | |
} | |
}); | |
//Fonctions------------------------ | |
function getLinks() { | |
var links = document.querySelectorAll('.results td.image a'); | |
return Array.prototype.map.call(links, function(e) { | |
var href = e.getAttribute('href'); | |
var url = 'http://www.imdb.com'+href+'quotes/'; | |
return url; | |
}); | |
} | |
function Quote(innerText) { | |
this.innerText = innerText; | |
}; | |
casper.renderJSON = function(what) { | |
return this.echo(JSON.stringify(what, null, ' ')); | |
}; | |
casper.saveJSON = function(what) { | |
fs.write('json/quotes.json', JSON.stringify(what, null, ' '), 'w'); | |
}; | |
//Crawl------------------------ | |
casper.start(firstUrl); | |
casper.then(function() { | |
links = this.evaluate(getLinks); | |
var j = 0; | |
this.eachThen(links,function(response){ | |
j++; | |
if(j >= maxLinks) return; | |
this.thenOpen(response.data, function writeOnJson() { | |
var objectsCount = this.evaluate(function(){ | |
return __utils__.findAll('.list .quote p').length; | |
}); | |
var objects = this.evaluate(function(){ | |
return __utils__.findAll('.list .quote p'); | |
}); | |
quotes = new Array(); | |
if(objectsCount != undefined) { | |
for(i = 0; i < objectsCount; i++) { | |
if(objects[i] != null) { | |
var quote = new Quote(objects[i]['innerText']); | |
quotes.push(quote); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
}); | |
}); | |
}); | |
casper.run(function() { | |
this.saveJSON(quotes); | |
this.echo('quotes :'+quotes.length) | |
this.renderJSON(quotes).exit(); | |
}); |
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hi, it could be that imdb has changed classes names but the script returns 0 quotes and an empty array