https://github.com/matthewmueller/node-nom

Dead simple site scrapper for Node.js
https://github.com/matthewmueller/node-nom

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Dead simple site scrapper for Node.js

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/matthewmueller/node-nom
• Owner: matthewmueller
• Created: 2012-02-05T12:16:31.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-11-23T20:10:16.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T16:35:37.734Z (29 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 74
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: Readme.md
  • Changelog: History.md

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README

        
# nom #

Om nom nom. Super simple asynchronous screen scrapper for Node.js. Nom uses [cheerio](http://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio) to provide the core jQuery API for grabbing and manipulating the response.

  

## Installation ##

`npm install matthewmueller/nom`

## Usage ##

### Basic ###

```js    

nom('http://google.com', function(err, $) {

  $('title').text() // => "Google"

});

```

### Multiple Requests ###

```js

nom('http://google.com', 'http://apple.com', function(err, $g, $a) {

  $g('title').text(); // => Google

  $a('title').text(); // => Apple

});

```

### Another way... ###

```js

function apple(err, $) {

  $('title').text(); // => Google

}

function google(err, $) {

  $('title').text(); // => Apple

}

// Request currying

nom('http://google.com', google)

   ('http://apple.com', apple);

```

## Command Line Usage ##

    $ nom  [selector] 

Arguments: 

* url: website you'd like to request

* selector: id, class, attribute or any other soupselect compatible selector

### Example ###

    $ nom http://google.com title

## License 

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Matthew Mueller <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the

'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including

without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,

distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to

permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to

the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be

included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY

CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,

TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE

SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.