A Guide to Web Scraping With JavaScript and Node.js

Written by andreas-a | Published 2020/09/27
Tech Story Tags: coding | programming | web-development | data | web-scraping | what-is-web-scraping | web-scraping-with-java | data-scraping

TLDR A Guide to Web Scraping With JavaScript and Node.js demonstrates how to use the Axios and Cheerio packages to extract data from a simple website. We’ll be using a headless browser, Puppeteer, to retrieve data from the web page that loads content via JavaScript. The data extraction technique is becoming increasingly beneficial in retrieving information from websites and applying them for various use cases. We'll be seeking to extract the number of comments listed on the top section of the page.via the TL;DR App
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Written by andreas-a | Founder @ saas.industries
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/09/27
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