se-scraper/index.js

const handler = require('./src/node_scraper.js');
var fs = require('fs');
var os = require("os");

exports.scrape = async function(config, callback) {
	// options for scraping
	event = {
		// the user agent to scrape with
		user_agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36',
		// if random_user_agent is set to True, a random user agent is chosen
		random_user_agent: false,
		// whether to select manual settings in visible mode
		set_manual_settings: false,
		// get meta data of scraping in return object
		write_meta_data: true,
		log_http_headers: 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]',
		// which search engine to scrape
		search_engine: 'google',
		compress: false, // compress
		debug: false,
		verbose: false,
		keywords: ['scrapeulous.com'],
		// whether to start the browser in headless mode
		headless: true,
		// path to output file, data will be stored in JSON
		output_file: '',
		// whether to prevent images, css, fonts and media from being loaded
		// will speed up scraping a great deal
		block_assets: true,
		// path to js module that extends functionality
		// this module should export the functions:
		// get_browser, handle_metadata, close_browser
		//custom_func: resolve('examples/pluggable.js'),
		custom_func: '',
	};

	// overwrite default config
	for (var key in config) {
		event[key] = config[key];
	}

	if (fs.existsSync(event.keyword_file)) {
		event.keywords = read_keywords_from_file(event.keyword_file);
	}

	if (!callback) {
		// called when results are ready
		callback = function (err, response) {
			if (err) {
				console.error(err)
			}

			console.dir(response.results, {depth: null, colors: true});
		}
	}

	await handler.handler(event, undefined, callback );
};

function read_keywords_from_file(fname) {
	let kws =  fs.readFileSync(fname).toString().split(os.EOL);
	// clean keywords
	kws = kws.filter((kw) => {
		return kw.trim().length > 0;
	});
	return kws;
}