I'm trying to get the title tag of a url with cheerio. But, I'm getting empty string values. This is my code:
app.get('/scrape', function(req, res){
url = 'http://nrabinowitz.github.io/pjscrape/';
request(url, function(error, response, html){
if(!error){
var $ = cheerio.load(html);
var title, release, rating;
var json = { title : "", release : "", rating : ""};
$('title').filter(function(){
//var data = $(this);
var data = $(this);
title = data.children().first().text();
release = data.children().last().children().text();
json.title = title;
json.release = release;
})
$('.star-box-giga-star').filter(function(){
var data = $(this);
rating = data.text();
json.rating = rating;
})
}
fs.writeFile('output.json', JSON.stringify(json, null, 4), function(err){
console.log('File successfully written! - Check your project directory for the output.json file');
})
// Finally, we'll just send out a message to the browser reminding you that this app does not have a UI.
res.send('Check your console!')
})
});
request(url, function (error, response, body)
{
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200)
{
var $ = cheerio.load(body);
var title = $("title").text();
}
})
Using Javascript we extract the text contained within the "title" tags.