site-snapshot

site-snapshot is a tool to capture the webpage while crawling specified links of the page.

Install

$ npm install -g site-snapshot

Usage

$ siteshot --help

  Usage: siteshot [options]


  Options:

    -V, --version              output the version number
    -s, --sitefile [sitefile]  The path to site.json file
    -h, --help

site.json

site-snapshot need to receive a json file which specifies the path to be crawled. The format of the file is here.

{
    "name": "index",
    "selector": null,
    "baseUrl": "http://www.lewuathe.com",
    "children": [
        {
            "name": "menu",
            "selector": ".element",
            "children": []
        }
    ]
}

With this file, site-snapshot tries to crawl recursively.

1. Capture root page
2. Capture child pages specified by selector in children object

Snapshot is created in index directory in this case.

$ tree index
index
├── index.html.pdf
└── menu
    ├── menu-about.pdf
    ├── menu-contact.pdf
    └── menu-writing.pdf

1 directory, 4 files

License

MIT License