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(Extract) Check the status of a vehicle registration and scrape results.
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// Open form and submit enquire for `rego` | |
function getInfo(rego) { | |
horseman | |
.userAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0') | |
.open(url) | |
.type('#registration-number-ctrl input[type=text]', rego) | |
.click('.btn-holder input') | |
.waitForSelector('.ctrl-holder.ctrl-readonly') | |
.html() | |
.then(function(body) { | |
console.log(processInfo(body, rego)); | |
return horseman.close(); | |
}); | |
} | |
// Scrape the results for key info | |
function processInfo(html, rego) { | |
var $ = cheerio.load(html); | |
var vehicle = $('label.label').filter(function() { | |
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Vehicle:'; | |
}).next().text().trim(); | |
var stolen = $('label.label').filter(function() { | |
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Stolen status:'; | |
}).next().text().trim(); | |
var registration = $('label.label').filter(function() { | |
return $(this).text().trim() === 'Registration status & expiry date:'; | |
}).next().text().trim(); | |
return { | |
rego, | |
vehicle, | |
stolen, | |
registration | |
}; | |
} |
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