scrape games from hq buff

index.js

var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var fs = require('fs');

try {
	var hq = require('./hq.json');
}
catch (e) {
	var hq = [];
}

if (!process.argv[2]) {
	throw 'Date must be supplied in format YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DD/number';
}

var id = process.argv[2];
var url = 'http://hqbuff.com/game/' + id;

var game = {
	id: id,
	url: url,
	prize: null,
	questions: []
}

request(url, (err, res, body) => {
	if (err) {
		throw err;
	}

	var $ = cheerio.load(body);

	game.prize = $('.game__prize').find('span').text();

	$('.question').each((i, el) => {
		var question = {};

		question.question = $(el).find('.question__text').text().replace(/[\t,\n]/g,'').replace('Savage', '');
		question.answers = {};
		question.answers.correct = $(el).find('.questions__correct').text().replace(/[\t,\n]/g,'').replace(' Correct', '');
		question.answers.other = [];
		$(el).find('li').each((i, el) => {
			if ($(el).children().length == 0) {
				question.answers.other.push($(el).text());
			}
		});

		game.questions.push(question);
	});

	hq.push(game);

	fs.writeFile('hq.json', JSON.stringify(hq, null, 4), (err) => {
			if (err) throw err;
		});
});

package.json

{
  "name": "hq-scraper",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.2"
  }
}