parsing ads is supported now for google, bing and duckduckgo

examples/quickstart.js

@@ -4,19 +4,22 @@ const se_scraper = require('./../src/node_scraper.js');
     let browser_config = {
         debug_level: 2,
         output_file: 'examples/results/data.json',
-        test_evasion: true,
+        test_evasion: false,
+        headless: false,
+        block_assets: false,
+        random_user_agent: true,
     };
 
     let scrape_job = {
         search_engine: 'google',
-        keywords: ['news', 'se-scraper'],
+        keywords: ['cloud service'],
         num_pages: 1,
         // add some cool google search settings
         google_settings: {
             gl: 'us', // The gl parameter determines the Google country to use for the query.
             hl: 'en', // The hl parameter determines the Google UI language to return results.
             start: 0, // Determines the results offset to use, defaults to 0.
-            num: 100, // Determines the number of results to show, defaults to 10. Maximum is 100.
+            num: 10, // Determines the number of results to show, defaults to 10. Maximum is 100.
         },
     };
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "se-scraper",
-  "version": "1.3.12",
+  "version": "1.3.13",
   "description": "A module using puppeteer to scrape several search engines such as Google, Duckduckgo, Bing or Baidu",
   "homepage": "https://scrapeulous.com/",
   "main": "index.js",

src/modules/bing.js

@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ class BingScraper extends Scraper {
             })
         });
 
+        // parse bing ads
+        const ads = [];
+        $('.b_ad .sb_add').each((i, element) => {
+            ads.push({
+                ad_visible_url: $(element).find('.b_adurl cite').text(),
+                ads_link: $(element).find('h2 a').attr('href'),
+                ads_link_target: $(element).find('h2 link').attr('href'),
+                title: $(element).find('h2 a').text(),
+                snippet: $(element).find('.b_caption').text(),
+            })
+        });
+
         // 'Including results for', 'Einschließlich Ergebnisse'
         let no_results = this.no_results(
             ['There are no results', 'Es gibt keine Ergebnisse'],
@@ -41,6 +53,7 @@ class BingScraper extends Scraper {
             effective_query: effective_query,
             num_results: $('#b_content .sb_count').text(),
             results: cleaned,
+            ads: ads,
         }
     }
 

src/modules/duckduckgo.js

@@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ class DuckduckgoScraper extends Scraper {
             });
         });
 
+        const ads = [];
+        $('.results--ads.has-ad').each((i, element) => {
+            ads.push({
+                ad_visible_url: $(element).find('.result__url').text(),
+                ads_link: $(element).find('.result__title .result__a').attr('href'),
+                title: $(element).find('.result__title .result__a').text(),
+                snippet: $(element).find('.result__snippet').text(),
+            })
+        });
+
         let effective_query = $('a.js-spelling-suggestion-link').attr('data-query') || '';
 
         const cleaned = [];
@@ -33,7 +43,8 @@ class DuckduckgoScraper extends Scraper {
         return {
             time: (new Date()).toUTCString(),
             effective_query: effective_query,
-            results: cleaned
+            results: cleaned,
+            ads: ads,
         }
     }
 

src/modules/google.js

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ class GoogleScraper extends Scraper {
         // load the page source into cheerio
         const $ = cheerio.load(html);
 
-        // perform queries
         const results = [];
         $('#center_col .g').each((i, link) => {
             results.push({
@@ -25,6 +24,41 @@ class GoogleScraper extends Scraper {
             })
         });
 
+        // parse top ads
+        const top_ads = [];
+        $('#tads .ads-ad').each((i, element) => {
+            top_ads.push({
+                ad_visible_url: $(element).find('.ads-visurl cite').text(),
+                ads_link: $(element).find('a:first-child').attr('href'),
+                ads_link_target: $(element).find('a:nth-child(2)').attr('href'),
+                title: $(element).find('a h3').text(),
+                snippet: $(element).find('.ads-creative').text(),
+            })
+        });
+
+        // parse bottom ads
+        const bottomads = [];
+        $('#tadsb .ads-ad').each((i, element) => {
+            bottomads.push({
+                ad_visible_url: $(element).find('.ads-visurl cite').text(),
+                ads_link: $(element).find('a:first-child').attr('href'),
+                ads_link_target: $(element).find('a:nth-child(2)').attr('href'),
+                title: $(element).find('a h3').text(),
+                snippet: $(element).find('.ads-creative').text(),
+            })
+        });
+
+        // parse google places
+        const places = [];
+        $('.rllt__link').each((i, element) => {
+            places.push({
+                heading: $(element).find('[role="heading"] span').text(),
+                rating: $(element).find('.rllt__details div:first-child').text(),
+                contact: $(element).find('.rllt__details div:nth-child(2)').text(),
+                hours: $(element).find('.rllt__details div:nth-child(3)').text(),
+            })
+        });
+
         // 'Ergebnisse für', 'Showing results for'
         let no_results = this.no_results(
             ['Es wurden keine mit deiner Suchanfrage', 'did not match any documents', 'Keine Ergebnisse für',
@@ -51,8 +85,12 @@ class GoogleScraper extends Scraper {
             num_results: $('#resultStats').text(),
             no_results: no_results,
             effective_query: effective_query,
-            results: cleaned
+            top_ads: top_ads,
+            bottom_ads: bottomads,
+            places: places,
+            results: cleaned,
         }
+
     }
 
     async load_start_page() {
@@ -105,7 +143,7 @@ class GoogleScraper extends Scraper {
     }
 
     async wait_for_results() {
-        await this.page.waitForSelector('#center_col .g', { timeout: this.STANDARD_TIMEOUT });
+        await this.page.waitForSelector('#fbarcnt', { timeout: this.STANDARD_TIMEOUT });
     }
 
     async detected() {

src/modules/se_scraper.js

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ module.exports = class Scraper {
                     let html = await this.page.content();
 
                     if (this.config.html_output) {
-                        this.html_output[keyword][page_num] = html;
+                        this.html_output[keyword][this.page_num] = html;
                     }
 
                     let parsed = this.parse(html);

src/node_scraper.js

@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ class ScrapeManager {
             num_pages: 1,
             // path to output file, data will be stored in JSON
             output_file: '',
+            // whether to also passthru all the html output of the serp pages
+            html_output: false,
             // whether to prevent images, css, fonts and media from being loaded
             // will speed up scraping a great deal
             block_assets: true,
@@ -357,7 +359,10 @@ class ScrapeManager {
 
             let res = await this.scraper.run(this.page);
             results = res.results;
+            metadata = this.scraper.metadata;
             num_requests = this.scraper.num_requests;
+            html_output = this.scraper.html_output;
+
         } else {
             // Each browser will get N/(K+1) keywords and will issue N/(K+1) * M total requests to the search engine.
             // https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/678

test/test_bing.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 const se_scraper =  require('./../index.js');
-var assert = require('chai').assert;
+const chai = require('chai');
-
+chai.use(require('chai-string'));
+const assert = chai.assert;
 /*
  * Use chai and mocha for tests.
  * https://mochajs.org/#installation
@@ -189,8 +190,85 @@ function test_case_effective_query(response) {
     }
 }
 
-(async () => {
+
-    await normal_search_test();
+const ads_keywords = ['cloud services', 'buy shoes'];
-    await no_results_test();
+
-    await effective_query_test();
+async function ads_test() {
-})();
+    let config = {
+        compress: false,
+        debug_level: 1,
+        headless: true,
+        block_assets: false,
+        random_user_agent: true,
+    };
+
+    let scrape_config = {
+        search_engine: 'bing',
+        keywords: ads_keywords,
+        num_pages: 1,
+    };
+
+    console.log('ads_test()');
+    test_case_ads_test( await se_scraper.scrape(config, scrape_config) );
+}
+
+function test_case_ads_test(response) {
+    assert.equal(response.metadata.num_requests, 2);
+
+    for (let query in response.results) {
+
+        assert.containsAllKeys(response.results, ads_keywords, 'not all keywords were scraped.');
+
+        for (let page_number in response.results[query]) {
+
+            assert.isNumber(parseInt(page_number), 'page_number must be numeric');
+
+            let obj = response.results[query][page_number];
+
+            assert.containsAllKeys(obj, ['results', 'time', 'no_results', 'num_results', 'effective_query', 'ads'], 'not all keys are in the object');
+
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.results.length, 5, 'results must have at least 5 SERP objects');
+            assert.equal(obj.no_results, false, 'no results should be false');
+            assert.typeOf(obj.num_results, 'string', 'num_results must be a string');
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.num_results.length, 5, 'num_results should be a string of at least 5 chars');
+            assert.typeOf(Date.parse(obj.time), 'number', 'time should be a valid date');
+
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.ads.length, 2, 'ads must have at least 2 SERP object');
+
+            for (let res of obj.ads) {
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link_target, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link_target, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link_target.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ad_visible_url, 'visible_link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ad_visible_url, 'string', 'visible_link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ad_visible_url.length, 5, 'visible_link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.title, 'title must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.title, 'string', 'title must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.title.length, 10, 'title must have at least 10 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.snippet, 'snippet must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.snippet, 'string', 'snippet must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.snippet.length, 10, 'snippet must have at least 10 chars');
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+
+
+describe('Bing', function(){
+    this.timeout(30000);
+    it('normal search',  normal_search_test);
+    it('no results', no_results_test);
+    it('effective query', effective_query_test);
+    it('finds ads', ads_test);
+});

test/test_google.js

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ function normal_search_test_case(response) {
     }
 }
 
-const keywords_no_results = ['fgskl34440abJAksafkl34a44dsflkjaQQuBBdfk',];
+const keywords_no_results = ['fgskl34440abJAksfs4353534a3l34AVGFDFflkjaQQuBBdfk',];
 
 async function no_results_test() {
     let config = {
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ async function effective_query_test() {
 function test_case_effective_query(response) {
     assert.equal(response.metadata.num_requests, 1);
 
-    results = response.results;
     for (let query in response.results) {
 
         assert.containsAllKeys(response.results, effective_query_keywords, 'not all keywords were scraped.');
@@ -222,10 +221,106 @@ function check_html_output_test_case( response ) {
   }
 }
 
+const ads_keywords = ['cloud services', 'buy shoes'];
+
+async function ads_test() {
+    let config = {
+        compress: false,
+        debug_level: 1,
+        headless: true,
+        block_assets: false,
+        random_user_agent: true,
+    };
+
+    let scrape_config = {
+        search_engine: 'google',
+        keywords: ads_keywords,
+        num_pages: 1,
+    };
+
+    console.log('ads_test()');
+    test_case_ads_test( await se_scraper.scrape(config, scrape_config) );
+}
+
+function test_case_ads_test(response) {
+    assert.equal(response.metadata.num_requests, 2);
+
+    for (let query in response.results) {
+
+        assert.containsAllKeys(response.results, ads_keywords, 'not all keywords were scraped.');
+
+        for (let page_number in response.results[query]) {
+
+            assert.isNumber(parseInt(page_number), 'page_number must be numeric');
+
+            let obj = response.results[query][page_number];
+
+            assert.containsAllKeys(obj, ['results', 'time', 'no_results', 'num_results', 'effective_query', 'top_ads', 'bottom_ads', 'places'], 'not all keys are in the object');
+
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.results.length, 7, 'results must have at least 7 SERP objects');
+            assert.equal(obj.no_results, false, 'no results should be false');
+            assert.typeOf(obj.num_results, 'string', 'num_results must be a string');
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.num_results.length, 5, 'num_results should be a string of at least 5 chars');
+            assert.typeOf(Date.parse(obj.time), 'number', 'time should be a valid date');
+
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.top_ads.length, 1, 'top_ads must have at least 1 SERP object');
+            assert.isAtLeast(obj.bottom_ads.length, 1, 'bottom_ads must have at least 1 SERP object');
+
+            for (let res of obj.top_ads) {
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link_target, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link_target, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link_target.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ad_visible_url, 'visible_link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ad_visible_url, 'string', 'visible_link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ad_visible_url.length, 5, 'visible_link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.title, 'title must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.title, 'string', 'title must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.title.length, 10, 'title must have at least 10 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.snippet, 'snippet must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.snippet, 'string', 'snippet must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.snippet.length, 10, 'snippet must have at least 10 chars');
+            }
+
+            for (let res of obj.bottom_ads) {
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ads_link_target, 'link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ads_link_target, 'string', 'link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ads_link_target.length, 5, 'link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.ad_visible_url, 'visible_link must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.ad_visible_url, 'string', 'visible_link must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.ad_visible_url.length, 5, 'visible_link must have at least 5 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.title, 'title must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.title, 'string', 'title must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.title.length, 10, 'title must have at least 10 chars');
+
+                assert.isOk(res.snippet, 'snippet must be ok');
+                assert.typeOf(res.snippet, 'string', 'snippet must be string');
+                assert.isAtLeast(res.snippet.length, 10, 'snippet must have at least 10 chars');
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 describe('Google', function(){
   this.timeout(30000);
   it('normal search',  normal_search_test);
   it('no results', no_results_test);
   it('effective query', effective_query_test);
   it('html output query', html_output_query_test);
+  it('finds ads', ads_test);
 });