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I have done this a lot. You'll want to use <a href="http://phantomjs.org/" rel="noreferrer">PhantomJS</a> if the website that you're scraping is heavily using JavaScript. Note that PhantomJS is not Node.js. It's a completely different JavaScript runtime. You can integrate through <a href="https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node" rel="noreferrer">phantomjs-node</a> or <a href="https://github.com/alexscheelmeyer/node-phantom" rel="noreferrer">node-phantom</a>, but they are both kinda hacky. YMMV with those. Avoid anything to do with jsdom. It'll cause you headaches - this includes <a href="http://zombie.labnotes.org/" rel="noreferrer">Zombie.js</a>. What you should use is <a href="https://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio" rel="noreferrer">Cheerio</a> in conjunction with <a href="https://github.com/mikeal/request" rel="noreferrer">Request</a>. This will be sufficient for most web pages. I wrote a blog post on using Cheerio with Request: <a href="http://procbits.com/2012/04/11/quick-and-dirty-screen-scraping-with-node-js-using-request-and-cheerio/" rel="noreferrer">Quick and Dirty Screen Scraping with Node.js</a> But, again, if it's JavaScript intensive, use PhantomJS in conjunction with <a href="http://casperjs.org/" rel="noreferrer">CasperJS</a>. Hope this helps. Snippet using Request and Cheerio: <pre><code>var request = require('request') , cheerio = require('cheerio'); var searchTerm = 'screen+scraping'; var url = 'http://www.bing.com/search?q=' + searchTerm; request(url, function(err, resp, body){ $ = cheerio.load(body); links = $('.sb_tlst h3 a'); //use your CSS selector here $(links).each(function(i, link){ console.log($(link).text() + ':\n ' + $(link).attr('href')); }); }); </code></pre>
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