https://github.com/dinubs/coolqlcool

Nextjs server to query websites with GraphQL
https://github.com/dinubs/coolqlcool

graphql javascript nextjs schema web-scraping

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Nextjs server to query websites with GraphQL

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dinubs/coolqlcool
• Owner: dinubs
• Created: 2017-12-10T05:58:22.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-25T07:18:31.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-22T16:59:20.278Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: graphql, javascript, nextjs, schema, web-scraping
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://cool.coolql.cool
• Size: 4.22 MB
• Stars: 636
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 48
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# Cool QL COOL

[![Deploy to now](https://deploy.now.sh/static/button.svg)](https://deploy.now.sh/?repo=https://github.com/dinubs/coolqlcool)

CoolQLCool (CQC) is an open source Graph QL server that allows you to turn websites into a Graph QL api. You can play around with it in [GraphiQL](https://coolql.cool/graphiql).

Important pieces of code are in `schema/`. Inside of `schema/element.js` is the schema for grabbing element information from pages. Inside of `schema/parse.js` is the schema for specifying which site you want to query.

All fields have a description alongside the function for determining what to return. If you have any questions on what a field returns feel free to make an issue and I can explain further what it does.

### Deploying

You can very quickly run your own CQC server using [Now](https://zeit.co/now). After you're all set up with a Zeit account, run `npm run deploy` in your terminal in this repo's directory. This will compile webpack for you, and run `now` for you. If you don't need the home page, simply run `now`.

### Running

The important bits are able to be ran with `npm start` this boots up an express server with endpoints `/graphql` for creating queries, and a `/graphiql` endpoint for help with building queries.

To compile assets for the home page do `webpack --watch`.

### Alternatives

Here's some other applications and tools that also do similar things as CoolQLCool. They're all great:

* [GDOM](https://github.com/syrusakbary/gdom) - DOM Traversing and Scraping using GraphQL

* [GraphQL Scraper](https://github.com/lachenmayer/graphql-scraper) - Extract structured data from the web using GraphQL