Osmosis

HTML/XML parser and web scraper for NodeJS.

Features

• Uses native libxml C bindings

• Clean promise-like interface

• Supports CSS 3.0 and XPath 1.0 selector hybrids

• Sizzle selectors, Slick selectors, and more

• No large dependencies like jQuery, cheerio, or jsdom

• Compose deep and complex data structures

• HTML parser features

  • Fast parsing
  • Very fast searching
  • Small memory footprint

• HTML DOM features

  • Load and search ajax content
  • DOM interaction and events
  • Execute embedded and remote scripts
  • Execute code in the DOM

• HTTP request features

  • Logs urls, redirects, and errors
  • Cookie jar and custom cookies/headers/user agent
  • Login/form submission, session cookies, and basic auth
  • Single proxy or multiple proxies and handles proxy failure
  • Retries and redirect limits

Example

var osmosis = require('osmosis');
 
osmosis
.get('www.craigslist.org/about/sites')
.find('h1 + div a')
.set('location')
.follow('@href')
.find('header + div + div li > a')
.set('category')
.follow('@href')
.paginate('.totallink + a.button.next:first')
.find('p > a')
.follow('@href')
.set({
    'title':        'section > h2',
    'description':  '#postingbody',
    'subcategory':  'div.breadbox > span[4]',
    'date':         'time@datetime',
    'latitude':     '#map@data-latitude',
    'longitude':    '#map@data-longitude',
    'images':       ['img@src']
})
.data(function(listing) {
    // do something with listing data 
})
.log(console.log)
.error(console.log)
.debug(console.log)

Documentation

For documentation and examples check out https://rchipka.github.io/node-osmosis/global.html

Dependencies

• libxmljs-dom - DOM wrapper for libxmljs C bindings
• needle - Lightweight HTTP wrapper

Donate

Please consider a donation if you depend on web scraping and Osmosis makes your job a bit easier. Your contribution allows me to spend more time making this the best web scraper for Node.

Donation offers:

• $25 - A custom Osmosis scraper to extract the data you need efficiently and in as few lines of code as possible.
• $25/month - Become a sponsor. Your company will be listed on this page. Priority support and bug fixes.