Jta26/node-js-image-scraper-example

Example for a friend to show him how to fetch and scrape data from other websites.

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node-js-image-scraper-example

Example for a friend to show him how to fetch and scrape data from other websites.

View on heroku here: https://node-js-scraping-example.herokuapp.com/

Explanation

Type in the search box and see a number of images appear. These images are pulled directly from google images that are scraped from an HTTP request using the node-fetch and Cheerio library. This technique is not specific to just images and can be used to scrape a whole ton of things from the web. Mind you that some websites actively ward against this technique as they limit the number of requests in a certain period of time (Amazon for example).

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