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Web Crawler Practice

#Tasks

  • Creating a web crawler application
  • Backend: Node.JS
  • Frontend: Any language/framework (Pug Templates, CSS, Bootstrap)
  • User will enter search terms to start the crawler application (Puppeteer)
  • Content submitted will be placed into the external search form on another site (Puppeteer)
  • External search form will submit automatically (Puppeteer)
  • Scrape resulting data/content (Puppeteer)

#Extras

  • Display resulting data for the user
  • Responsive and very simple display

#Skills Learned

  • Puppeteer
    • simulate user entering content on external site search form
    • simulate user clicking on external site search button
    • scraping the resulting data from external site's search results page

#Run Locally

  • Download and run npm install
  • Then npm start to run the project
  • View at localhost:3000

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Web crawler that allows the user to input search terms and then get results back from an external website.

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