se-scraper/TODO.md
Nikolai Tschacher 19a172c654 better tests
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### 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]
### 13.8.2019
- Write test case for clean html output [done]
- Consider better compression algorithm. [done] There is the brotli algorithm, but this is only supported
in very recent versions of nodejs
- what else can we remove from the dom [done] Removing comment nodes now! They are large in BING.
- remove all whitespace and \n and \t from html
### 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