How to use the apify.BasicCrawler function in apify

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github apifytech / apify-js / examples / basic_crawler.js View on Github external
Apify.main(async () => {
    // Create and initialize an instance of the RequestList class that contains
    // a list of URLs to crawl. Here we use just a few hard-coded URLs.
    const requestList = new Apify.RequestList({
        sources: [
            { url: 'http://www.google.com/' },
            { url: 'http://www.example.com/' },
            { url: 'http://www.bing.com/' },
            { url: 'http://www.wikipedia.com/' },
        ],
    });
    await requestList.initialize();

    // Create a BasicCrawler - the simplest crawler that enables
    // users to implement the crawling logic themselves.
    const crawler = new Apify.BasicCrawler({

        // Let the crawler fetch URLs from our list.
        requestList,

        // This function will be called for each URL to crawl.
        // The 'request' option is an instance of the Request class, which contains
        // information such as URL and HTTP method, as supplied by the RequestList.
        handleRequestFunction: async ({ request }) => {
            console.log(`Processing ${request.url}...`);

            // Fetch the page HTML
            const html = await requestPromise(request.url);

            // Store the HTML and URL to the default dataset.
            await Apify.pushData({
                url: request.url,
github apifytech / apify-js / examples / example_basic_crawler.js View on Github external
Apify.main(async () => {
    // Create a request list.
    const requestList = new Apify.RequestList({
        sources: [
            { url: 'http://www.example.com' },
            { url: 'http://www.example.com/?page=2' },
            { url: 'http://www.example.com/?page=3' },
            { url: 'http://www.example.com/?page=4' },
            { url: 'http://www.example.com/?page=5' },
        ],
    });

    await requestList.initialize();

    const crawler = new Apify.BasicCrawler({
        requestList,

        // This page is executed for each request.
        // If request failes then it's retried 3 times.
        handleRequestFunction: async ({ request }) => {
            const pageHtml = await rp(request.url);

            console.log(`Request ${request.url} succeeded with return html of length ${pageHtml.length}`);
            
            await Apify.pushData({
                url: request.url,
                html: pageHtml,
                errors: null,
            })
        },
github apifytech / apify-js / examples / crawler_cheerio.js View on Github external
Apify.main(async () => {
    // Get queue and enqueue first url.
    const requestQueue = await Apify.openRequestQueue();

    // Enqueue Start url.
    await requestQueue.addRequest(new Apify.Request({ url: 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' }));

    // Create crawler.
    const crawler = new Apify.BasicCrawler({
        requestQueue,

        // This page is executed for each request.
        // If request failes then it's retried 3 times.
        handleRequestFunction: async ({ request }) => {
            console.log(`Processing ${request.url}...`);

            // Request html of page.
            const html = await rp(request.url);

            // Extract data with cheerio.
            const data = [];
            const $ = cheerio.load(html);
            $('.athing').each((index, el) => {
                data.push({
                    title: $(el).find('.title a').text(),
github apifytech / apify-cli / src / templates / basic_crawler / main.js View on Github external
Apify.main(async () => {
    // Get input of the actor (here only for demonstration purposes).
    // If you'd like to have your input checked and have Apify display
    // a user interface for it, add INPUT_SCHEMA.json file to your actor.
    // For more information, see https://apify.com/docs/actor/input-schema
    const input = await Apify.getInput();
    console.log('Input:');
    console.dir(input);

    if (!input || !input.sources) throw new Error('Input must be a JSON object with the "sources" field!');

    const requestList = await Apify.openRequestList('my-request-list', input.sources);

    // Create a basic crawler that will use request-promise to download
    // web pages from a given list of URLs
    const basicCrawler = new Apify.BasicCrawler({
        requestList,
        handleRequestFunction: async ({ request }) => {
            await Apify.pushData({
                request,
                finishedAt: new Date(),
                html: await rp(request.url),
                '#debug': Apify.utils.createRequestDebugInfo(request),
            });
        },

        handleFailedRequestFunction: async ({ request }) => {
            await Apify.pushData({
                '#isFailed': true,
                '#debug': Apify.utils.createRequestDebugInfo(request),
            });
        },

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