### 24.12.2018 - fix interface to scrape() [DONE] - add to Github ### 24.1.2018 - fix issue #3: add functionality to add keyword file ### 27.1.2019 - 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/ ### 29.1.2019 - implement proxy support functionality - implement proxy check - implement scraping more than 1 page - do it for google - and bing - implement duckduckgo scraping ### 30.1.2019 - modify all scrapers to use the generic class where it makes sense - Bing, Baidu, Google, Duckduckgo ### 7.2.2019 - add num_requests to test cases [done] ### 25.2.2019 - https://antoinevastel.com/crawler/2018/09/20/parallel-crawler-puppeteer.html - add support for browsing with multiple browsers, use this neat library: - https://github.com/thomasdondorf/puppeteer-cluster [done] ### 28.2.2019 - write test case for multiple browsers/proxies - write test case and example for multiple tabs with bing - make README.md nicer. https://github.com/thomasdondorf/puppeteer-cluster/blob/master/README.md as template ### 11.6.2019 - TODO: fix amazon scraping - change api of remaining test cases [done] - TODO: implement custom search engine parameters on scrape() ### 12.6.2019 - remove unnecessary sleep() calls and replace with waitFor selectors ### 16.7.2019 - resolve issues - fix this https://github.com/NikolaiT/se-scraper/issues/37 [done] - use puppeteer stealth plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth - we will need to load at the concurrency impl of puppeteer-cluster [no typescript support :(), I will not support this right now] - user random user agents plugin: https://github.com/intoli/user-agents [done] - add screenshot capability (make the screen after parsing) - store as b64 [done] ### 12.8.2019 - add static test case for bing [done] - add options that minimize `html_output` flag: `clean_html_output` will remove all JS and CSS from the html `clean_data_images` removes all data images from the html [done] ### TODO: 1. fix googlenewsscraper waiting for results and parsing. remove the static sleep [done] 2. when using multiple browsers and random user agent, pass a random user agent to each perBrowserOptions 3. dont create a new tab when opening a new scraper