added pluggable functionality

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This node module supports scraping several search engines.
 
-Right now scraping for 
+Right now scraping the search engines 
 
 * Google
 * Google News
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Right now scraping for
 
 is supported.
 
+Additionally **se-scraper** supports investment ticker search from the following sites:
+
+* Bloomberg
+* Reuters
+* cnbc
+* Marketwatch
+
 This module uses puppeteer. It was created by the Developer of https://github.com/NikolaiT/GoogleScraper, a module with 1800 Stars on Github.
 
 ### Technical Notes
@@ -38,8 +45,9 @@ npm install se-scraper
 
 Use se-scraper by calling it with a script such as the one below.
 
-```javascript
+```js
 const se_scraper = require('se-scraper');
+const resolve = require('path').resolve;
 
 let config = {
     // the user agent to scrape with
@@ -47,27 +55,35 @@ let config = {
     // if random_user_agent is set to True, a random user agent is chosen
     random_user_agent: false,
     // get meta data of scraping in return object
-    write_meta_data: true,
+    write_meta_data: false,
     // how long to sleep between requests. a random sleep interval within the range [a,b]
     // is drawn before every request. empty string for no sleeping.
-    sleep_range: '[1,1]',
+    sleep_range: '',
     // which search engine to scrape
-    search_engine: 'yahoo_news',
+    search_engine: 'google',
     // whether debug information should be printed
-    debug: true,
+    // debug info is useful for developers when debugging
+    debug: false,
     // whether verbose program output should be printed
+    // this output is informational
     verbose: false,
     // an array of keywords to scrape
-    keywords: ['GOOGL', ],
+    keywords: ['scrapeulous.com', ],
     // alternatively you can specify a keyword_file. this overwrites the keywords array
-    keyword_file: './keywords.txt',
+    keyword_file: '',
     // whether to start the browser in headless mode
-    headless: false,
+    headless: true,
     // path to output file, data will be stored in JSON
-    output_file: 'results.json',
+    output_file: 'data.json',
     // whether to prevent images, css, fonts from being loaded
     // will speed up scraping a great deal
-    block_assets: true
+    block_assets: true,
+    // path to js module that extends functionality
+    // this module should export the functions:
+    // get_browser, handle_metadata, close_browser
+    // must be an absolute path to the module
+    //custom_func: resolve('examples/pluggable.js'),
+    custom_func: '',
 };
 
 se_scraper.scrape(config, (err, response) => {
@@ -100,6 +116,11 @@ Supported options for the `search_engine` config key:
 'duckduckgo_news'
 'google_dr'
 'yahoo_news'
+// ticker search
+'bloomberg'
+'reuters'
+'cnbc'
+'marketwatch'
 ```
 
 Output for the above script on my laptop:

TODO.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     - Add functionality to block images and CSS from loading as described here:
 
         https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-increase-web-scraping-speed-using-puppeteer/
+        https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-build-a-web-scraper-using-puppeteer-and-node-js/
 
 TODO:
     - add proxy support

data.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"scrapeulous.com":{"time":"Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:51:54 GMT","num_results":"Ungefähr 169 Ergebnisse (0,23 Sekunden) ","no_results":false,"effective_query":"","results":[{"link":"https://scrapeulous.com/","title":"Scrapeulous","snippet":"Scrapeulous.com allows you to scrape various search engines automatically and in large quantities. Whether you need to analyze your competitors market ...","visible_link":"https://scrapeulous.com/","date":"","rank":1},{"link":"https://scrapeulous.com/about/","title":"About - Scrapeulous","snippet":"Scrapeulous.com allows you to scrape various search engines automatically and in large quantities. The business requirement to scrape information from ...","visible_link":"https://scrapeulous.com/about/","date":"","rank":2},{"link":"https://scrapeulous.com/contact/","title":"Contact - Scrapeulous","snippet":"Contact scrapeulous.com. Your email address. Valid email address where we are going to contact you. We will not send spam mail. Your inquiry.","visible_link":"https://scrapeulous.com/contact/","date":"","rank":3},{"link":"https://scrapeulous.com/howto/","title":"Howto - Scrapeulous","snippet":"We offer scraping large amounts of keywords for the Google Search Engine. Large means any number of keywords between 40 and 50000. Additionally, we ...","visible_link":"https://scrapeulous.com/howto/","date":"","rank":4},{"link":"https://incolumitas.com/","title":"Coding, Learning and Business Ideas","snippet":"About · Contact · GoogleScraper · Lichess Autoplay-Bot · Projects · Scrapeulous.com · Site Notice · SVGCaptcha · Home Archives Categories Tags Atom ...","visible_link":"https://incolumitas.com/","date":"","rank":5},{"link":"https://incolumitas.com/pages/scrapeulous/","title":"Coding, Learning and Business Ideas – Scrapeulous.com - Incolumitas","snippet":"In autumn 2018, I created a scraping service called scrapeulous.com. There you can purchase scrape jobs that allow you to upload a keyword file which in turn ...","visible_link":"https://incolumitas.com/pages/scrapeulous/","date":"","rank":6},{"link":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xn6rc9GbI","title":"scrapeulous intro - YouTube","snippet":"Introduction for https://scrapeulous.com.","visible_link":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xn6rc9GbI","date":"","rank":7},{"link":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJs1Xei5LRefg9GwFYdYhOw","title":"Scrapeulous Scrapeulous - YouTube","snippet":"How to use scrapeulous.com - Duration: 3 minutes, 42 seconds. 32 minutes ago; 4 views. Introduction for https://scrapeulous.com. Show more. This item has ...","visible_link":"https://www.youtube.com/.../UCJs1Xei5LRefg9GwFYdYhOw","date":"","rank":8},{"link":"https://readthedocs.org/projects/googlescraper/downloads/pdf/latest/","title":"GoogleScraper Documentation - Read the Docs","snippet":"23.12.2018 - 1.1 Scrapeulous.com - Scraping Service. GoogleScraper is a open source tool and will remain a open source tool in the future. Some people ...","visible_link":"https://readthedocs.org/projects/googlescraper/downloads/.../latest...","date":"23.12.2018 - ","rank":9}]}}

examples/pluggable.js

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+module.exports = {
+    get_browser: get_browser,
+    handle_metadata: handle_metadata,
+    close_browser: close_browser
+};
+
+async function close_browser(browser) {
+    await browser.close();
+}
+
+async function handle_metadata() {
+    // silence
+}
+
+async function get_browser(launch_args) {
+    const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
+
+    const ADDITIONAL_CHROME_FLAGS = [
+        '--no-sandbox',
+        '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
+        '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
+        '--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas',
+        '--disable-gpu',
+        '--window-size=1920x1080',
+        '--hide-scrollbars',
+        '--user-agent=Chrome',
+    ];
+
+    let custom_args = {
+        args: ADDITIONAL_CHROME_FLAGS,
+        headless: true,
+    };
+
+    browser = await puppeteer.launch(launch_args);
+
+    console.log('Loaded custom function get_browser()');
+
+    return browser;
+}

index.js

@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ exports.scrape = async function(config, callback) {
 		output_file: '',
 		// whether to prevent images, css, fonts from being loaded
 		// will speed up scraping a great deal
-		block_assets: true
+		block_assets: true,
+		// path to js module that extends functionality
+		// this module should export the functions:
+		// get_browser, handle_metadata, close_browser
+		custom_func: 'examples/pluggable.js',
 	};
 
 	for (var key in config) {

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "name": "se-scraper",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
+  "version": "1.1.1",
   "description": "A simple module which uses puppeteer to scrape several search engines.",
+  "homepage": "https://scrapeulous.com/",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
     "test": "mocha"

run.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const se_scraper = require('./index.js');
+const resolve = require('path').resolve;
 
 let config = {
     // the user agent to scrape with
@@ -9,24 +10,32 @@ let config = {
     write_meta_data: false,
     // how long to sleep between requests. a random sleep interval within the range [a,b]
     // is drawn before every request. empty string for no sleeping.
-    sleep_range: '[1,1]',
+    sleep_range: '',
     // which search engine to scrape
-    search_engine: 'bing',
+    search_engine: 'google',
     // whether debug information should be printed
-    debug: true,
+    // debug info is useful for developers when debugging
+    debug: false,
     // whether verbose program output should be printed
+    // this output is informational
     verbose: false,
     // an array of keywords to scrape
-    keywords: ['MSFT', ],
+    keywords: ['scrapeulous.com', ],
     // alternatively you can specify a keyword_file. this overwrites the keywords array
     keyword_file: '',
     // whether to start the browser in headless mode
-    headless: false,
+    headless: true,
     // path to output file, data will be stored in JSON
     output_file: 'data.json',
     // whether to prevent images, css, fonts from being loaded
     // will speed up scraping a great deal
-    block_assets: true
+    block_assets: true,
+    // path to js module that extends functionality
+    // this module should export the functions:
+    // get_browser, handle_metadata, close_browser
+    // must be an absolute path to the module
+    //custom_func: resolve('examples/pluggable.js'),
+    custom_func: '',
 };
 
 se_scraper.scrape(config, (err, response) => {

src/modules/functions.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ module.exports = {
     sleep: sleep,
     random_sleep: random_sleep,
     set_input_value: set_input_value,
+
 };
 
 async function set_input_value(page, selector, value) {

src/modules/google.js

@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 const cheerio = require('cheerio');
 const sfunctions = require('./functions.js');
 
-/*
-	Scrape for dateranges:
-
-	https://www.google.com/search?lr=&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2007,cd_max:1/1/2009&q=%22video+game%22+%22Catan%22&oq=%22video+game%22+%22Catan%22
-
- */
-
 module.exports = {
 	scrape_google_news_old_pup: scrape_google_news_old_pup,
 	scrape_google_pup: scrape_google_pup,
@@ -19,13 +12,6 @@ module.exports = {
 const STANDARD_TIMEOUT = 8000;
 const SOLVE_CAPTCHA_TIME = 45000;
 
-const setTextInputValue = async (page, selector, value) => {
-    await page.waitFor(selector);
-    await page.evaluate((value, selector) => {
-        return document.querySelector(selector).value = value;
-    }, value, selector);
-};
-
 async function scrape_google_pup(page, event, context) {
 	await page.goto('https://www.google.com/');
 
@@ -51,7 +37,7 @@ async function scrape_google_pup(page, event, context) {
 			// await input.click({ clickCount: 3 });
             // await sfunctions.sleep(50);
             //await input.type(keyword);
-            await setTextInputValue(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
+            await sfunctions.set_input_value(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
             await sfunctions.sleep(50);
 			await input.focus();
 			await page.keyboard.press("Enter");
@@ -130,7 +116,7 @@ async function scrape_google_pup_dr(page, event, context) {
             // await input.click({ clickCount: 3 });
             // await sfunctions.sleep(50);
             // await input.type(keyword);
-            await setTextInputValue(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
+            await sfunctions.set_input_value(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
             await sfunctions.sleep(50);
 
             await input.focus();
@@ -252,7 +238,7 @@ async function scrape_google_news_old_pup(page, event, context) {
 			// overwrites last text in input
 			// await input.click({ clickCount: 3 });
 			// await input.type(keyword);
-            await setTextInputValue(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
+            await sfunctions.set_input_value(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
             await sfunctions.sleep(50);
 			await input.focus();
 			await page.keyboard.press("Enter");
@@ -367,7 +353,7 @@ async function scrape_google_image_pup(page, event, context) {
 			// overwrites last text in input
 			// await input.click({ clickCount: 3 });
 			// await input.type(keyword);
-            await setTextInputValue(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
+            await sfunctions.set_input_value(page, `input[name="q"]`, keyword);
             await sfunctions.sleep(50);
 
 			await input.focus();

src/node_scraper.js

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ const meta = require('./modules/metadata.js');
 const duckduckgo = require('./modules/duckduckgo.js');
 const tickersearch = require('./modules/ticker_search.js');
 
-
 function write_results(fname, data) {
 	fs.writeFileSync(fname, data, (err) => {
 		if (err) throw err;
@@ -21,14 +20,23 @@ function write_results(fname, data) {
 	});
 }
 
-module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
+module.exports.handler = async function handler (config, context, callback) {
+
+	custom_func = null;
+	if (config.custom_func && fs.existsSync(config.custom_func)) {
+		try {
+			custom_func = require(config.custom_func);
+		} catch (exception) {
+
+		}
+	}
 
 	try {
 		const startTime = Date.now();
 
-		event = parseEventData(event);
-		if (event.debug === true) {
-			console.log(event);
+		config = parseEventData(config);
+		if (config.debug === true) {
+			console.log(config);
 		}
 
         const ADDITIONAL_CHROME_FLAGS = [
@@ -44,12 +52,12 @@ module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
 
 		let USER_AGENT = '';
 
-        if (event.random_user_agent) {
+        if (config.random_user_agent) {
             USER_AGENT = ua.random_user_agent();
 		}
 
-        if (event.user_agent) {
-			USER_AGENT = event.user_agent;
+        if (config.user_agent) {
+			USER_AGENT = config.user_agent;
 		}
 
         if (USER_AGENT) {
@@ -58,23 +66,29 @@ module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
 			)
 		}
 
-        if (event.debug === true) {
-            console.log("Chrome Flags: ", ADDITIONAL_CHROME_FLAGS);
-        }
-
-		browser = await puppeteer.launch({
+        let launch_args = {
 			args: ADDITIONAL_CHROME_FLAGS,
-			headless: event.headless !== false,
-		});
+			headless: config.headless !== false,
+		};
 
-		if (event.log_http_headers === true) {
+		if (config.debug === true) {
+			console.log("Chrome Args: ", launch_args);
+		}
+
+        if (custom_func) {
+        	browser = await custom_func.get_browser(launch_args);
+		} else {
+			browser = await puppeteer.launch(launch_args);
+		}
+
+		if (config.log_http_headers === true) {
 			headers = await meta.get_http_headers(browser);
 			console.dir(headers);
 		}
 
 		const page = await browser.newPage();
 
-		if (event.block_assets === true) {
+		if (config.block_assets === true) {
 			await page.setRequestInterception(true);
 
 			page.on('request', (req) => {
@@ -104,45 +118,53 @@ module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
 			reuters: tickersearch.scrape_reuters_finance_pup,
 			cnbc: tickersearch.scrape_cnbc_finance_pup,
 			marketwatch: tickersearch.scrape_marketwatch_finance_pup,
-		}[event.search_engine](page, event, context);
+		}[config.search_engine](page, config, context);
 
         let metadata = {};
 
-        if (event.write_meta_data === true) {
+        if (config.write_meta_data === true) {
             metadata = await meta.get_metadata(browser);
         }
 
-		await browser.close();
+		if (custom_func) {
+			await custom_func.close_browser(browser);
+		} else {
+			await browser.close();
+		}
 
-		let num_keywords = event.keywords.length || 0;
+		let num_keywords = config.keywords.length || 0;
 		let timeDelta = Date.now() - startTime;
 		let ms_per_keyword = timeDelta/num_keywords;
-		console.log(`Scraper took ${timeDelta}ms to scrape ${num_keywords} keywords.`);
-		console.log(`On average ms/keyword: ${ms_per_keyword}ms/keyword`);
 
-		if (event.verbose === true) {
+		if (config.verbose === true) {
+			console.log(`Scraper took ${timeDelta}ms to scrape ${num_keywords} keywords.`);
+			console.log(`On average ms/keyword: ${ms_per_keyword}ms/keyword`);
 			console.dir(results, {depth: null, colors: true});
 		}
 
-		if (event.compress === true) {
+		if (config.compress === true) {
 			results = JSON.stringify(results);
 			// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Encoding
 			results = zlib.deflateSync(results).toString('base64');
 		}
 
-		if (event.write_meta_data === true) {
-            metadata.id = `${event.job_name} ${event.chunk_lines}`;
-			metadata.chunk_lines = event.chunk_lines;
+		if (config.write_meta_data === true) {
+            metadata.id = `${config.job_name} ${config.chunk_lines}`;
+			metadata.chunk_lines = config.chunk_lines;
 			metadata.elapsed_time = timeDelta.toString();
 			metadata.ms_per_keyword = ms_per_keyword.toString();
 
-			if (event.verbose === true) {
+			if (config.verbose === true) {
 				console.log(metadata);
 			}
+
+			if (custom_func) {
+				await custom_func.handle_metadata(metadata);
+			}
 		}
 
-		if (event.output_file) {
-			write_results(event.output_file, JSON.stringify(results));
+		if (config.output_file) {
+			write_results(config.output_file, JSON.stringify(results));
 		}
 
 		let response = {
@@ -161,7 +183,7 @@ module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
 	} 
 };
 
-function parseEventData(event) {
+function parseEventData(config) {
 
 	function _bool(e) {
 		e = String(e);
@@ -172,54 +194,54 @@ function parseEventData(event) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (event.debug) {
-		event.debug = _bool(event.debug);
+	if (config.debug) {
+		config.debug = _bool(config.debug);
 	}
 
-	if (event.verbose) {
-		event.verbose = _bool(event.verbose);
+	if (config.verbose) {
+		config.verbose = _bool(config.verbose);
 	}
 
-	if (event.upload_to_s3) {
-		event.upload_to_s3 = _bool(event.upload_to_s3);
+	if (config.upload_to_s3) {
+		config.upload_to_s3 = _bool(config.upload_to_s3);
 	}
 
-	if (event.write_meta_data) {
-		event.write_meta_data = _bool(event.write_meta_data);
+	if (config.write_meta_data) {
+		config.write_meta_data = _bool(config.write_meta_data);
 	}
 
-	if (event.log_http_headers) {
-		event.log_http_headers = _bool(event.log_http_headers);
+	if (config.log_http_headers) {
+		config.log_http_headers = _bool(config.log_http_headers);
 	}
 
-	if (event.compress) {
-		event.compress = _bool(event.compress);
+	if (config.compress) {
+		config.compress = _bool(config.compress);
 	}
 
-	if (event.is_local) {
-		event.is_local = _bool(event.is_local);
+	if (config.is_local) {
+		config.is_local = _bool(config.is_local);
 	}
 
-	if (event.max_results) {
-		event.max_results = parseInt(event.max_results);
+	if (config.max_results) {
+		config.max_results = parseInt(config.max_results);
 	}
 
-	if (event.set_manual_settings) {
-		event.set_manual_settings = _bool(event.set_manual_settings);
+	if (config.set_manual_settings) {
+		config.set_manual_settings = _bool(config.set_manual_settings);
 	}
 
-	if (event.block_assets) {
-		event.block_assets = _bool(event.block_assets);
+	if (config.block_assets) {
+		config.block_assets = _bool(config.block_assets);
 	}
 
-	if (event.sleep_range) {
+	if (config.sleep_range) {
 		// parse an array
-		event.sleep_range = eval(event.sleep_range);
+		config.sleep_range = eval(config.sleep_range);
 
-		if (event.sleep_range.length !== 2 && typeof i[0] !== 'number' && typeof i[1] !== 'number') {
+		if (config.sleep_range.length !== 2 && typeof i[0] !== 'number' && typeof i[1] !== 'number') {
             throw "sleep_range is not a valid array of two integers.";
 		}
 	}
 
-	return event;
+	return config;
 }

test/tests.js

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ async function tests() {
 		console.log(`Testing ${se}...`);
 		event.search_engine = se;
 		await handler.handler(event, undefined, test_case);
-        await sleep(3000);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -88,26 +87,19 @@ function test_case(err, response) {
 	if (err) {
 		console.error(err);
 	} else {
-
         assert.equal(response.headers['Content-Type'], 'text/json', 'content type is not text/json');
         assert.equal(response.statusCode, 200, 'status code must be 200');
 
-        results = response.results;
-
-        for (kw in results) {
+        for (key in response.results) {
+            kw = response.results[key];
             // at least 6 results
-            assert.isAtLeast(results[kw].results.length, 6, 'results must have at least 6 links');
+            assert.isAtLeast(kw.results.length, 6, 'results must have at least 6 links');
+            assert.equal(kw.no_results, false, 'no results should be false');
+            assert.typeOf(kw.num_results, 'string', 'num_results must be a string');
+            assert.isAtLeast(kw.num_results.length, 5, 'num_results should be a string of at least 5 chars');
+            assert.typeOf(Date.parse(kw.time), 'number', 'time should be a valid date');
 
-            assert.equal(results[kw].no_results, false, 'no results should be false');
-
-            assert.typeOf(results[kw].num_results, 'string', 'num_results must be a string');
-            assert.isAtLeast(results[kw].num_results.length, 5, 'num_results should be a string of at least 5 chars');
-
-            assert.typeOf(Date.parse(results[kw].time), 'number', 'time should be a valid date');
-
-
-            for (k = 0; k < results[kw].results.length; k++) {
-                res = results[kw].results[k];
+            for (let res of kw.results) {
                 assert.isOk(res.link, 'link must be ok');
                 assert.typeOf(res.link, 'string', 'link must be string');
                 assert.isAtLeast(res.link.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');