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x-crawl
x-crawl is a flexible Node.js multifunctional crawler library. Used to crawl pages, crawl interfaces, crawl files, and poll crawls.
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Features
- 🔥 AsyncSync - Just change the mode attribute value to switch async or sync crawling mode.
- ⚙️Multiple functions - It can crawl pages, crawl interfaces, crawl files and polling crawls, and supports crawling single or multiple.
- 🖋️ Flexible writing style - Simple target configuration, detailed target configuration, mixed target array configuration and advanced configuration, the same crawling API can adapt to multiple configurations.
- 👀Device Fingerprinting - Zero configuration or custom configuration to avoid fingerprinting to identify and track us from different locations.
- ⏱️ Interval Crawling - No interval, fixed interval and random interval can generate or avoid high concurrent crawling.
- 🔄 Retry on failure - Global settings, local settings and individual settings, It can avoid crawling failure caused by temporary problems.
- 🚀 Priority Queue - According to the priority of a single crawling target, it can be crawled ahead of other targets.
- ☁️ Crawl SPA - Crawl SPA (Single Page Application) to generate pre-rendered content (aka "SSR" (Server Side Rendering)).
- ⚒️ Controlling Pages - Headless browsers can submit forms, keystrokes, event actions, generate screenshots of pages, etc.
- 🧾 Capture Record - Capture and record crawling results and other information, and highlight reminders on the console.
- 🦾 TypeScript - Own types, implement complete types through generics.
Example
Take some pictures of Airbnb hawaii experience and Plus listings automatically every day as an example:
// 1.Import module ES/CJS
import xCrawl from 'x-crawl'
// 2.Create a crawler instance
const myXCrawl = xCrawl({ maxRetry: 3, intervalTime: { max: 3000, min: 2000 } })
// 3.Set the crawling task
/*
Call the startPolling API to start the polling function,
and the callback function will be called every other day
*/
myXCrawl.startPolling({ d: 1 }, async (count, stopPolling) => {
// Call crawlPage API to crawl Page
const res = await myXCrawl.crawlPage([
'https://zh.airbnb.com/s/hawaii/experiences',
'https://zh.airbnb.com/s/hawaii/plus_homes'
])
// Store the image URL to targets
const targets = []
const elSelectorMap = ['.c14whb16', '.a1stauiv']
for (const item of res) {
const { id } = item
const { page } = item.data
// Gets the URL of the page's wheel image element
const boxHandle = await page.$(elSelectorMap[id - 1])
const urls = await boxHandle!.$$eval('picture img', (imgEls) => {
return imgEls.map((item) => item.src)
})
targets.push(...urls)
// Close page
page.close()
}
// Call the crawlFile API to crawl pictures
myXCrawl.crawlFile({ targets, storeDir: './upload' })
})
running result:
Note: Do not crawl at will, you can check the robots.txt protocol before crawling. This is just to demonstrate how to use x-crawl.
More
For more detailed documentation, please check: https://github.com/coder-hxl/x-crawl
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