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@niraj-shah
Last active January 21, 2016 05:26
NodeJS example of how to scrape a webpage and retrieve the details
// include the libraries we need
var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
// set some defaults
req = request.defaults({
jar: true, // save cookies to jar
rejectUnauthorized: false,
followAllRedirects: true // allow redirections
});
// scrape the page
req.get({
url: "http://www.whatsmyipaddress.net/",
headers: {
'User-Agent': 'Super Cool Browser' // optional headers
}
}, function(err, resp, body) {
// load the html into cheerio
var $ = cheerio.load(body);
// get the data and output to console
console.log( 'IP: ' + $('.inner_cntent:nth-child(1) span').text() );
console.log( 'Host: ' + $('.inner_cntent:nth-child(2) span').text() );
console.log( 'UA: ' + $('.browser span').text() );
});
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