Darts Scraper

Scraper for lidarts.org data to CSV. Requested by my friend.

Web scraper for gathering users game history into CSV format files using: node.js, dotenv and puppeteer.

Installation

npm install

Setup

Create .env file and provide Your lidarts.org credentials as well as the input file and mode. For defaults see Configuration below.

# .env

# Credentials - required
LOGIN = "Username"
PWD = "Password"
# Input
INPUT_FILE = "input.txt"
# Mode
MODE = "production"

Credentials

Your lidarts.org credentials. .env is a local environmental file.

Input

Path to input file containing names of users. Usernames must be seperated by comma. Any excessive spaces are trimmed.

# input.txt
doman100, Eghizio

Mode

Any string starting with dev will enable development mode with debug logs and disabling headless mode. Mode is case insensitive.

Run:

Run with npm:

npm start

Run with node.js:

node app.js

Run with environmental variables:

env LOGIN=Username PWD=Password INPUT_FILE=input.txt node app.js

Configuration

In order to customize the appliction, edit config.js. You can customize the selectors if they change in the future.

• INPUT_DIR
• OUTPUT_DIR
• MODE
• LOGIN_PAGE
• LOGIN_XPath
• HISTORY_XPath

Default configuration

// config.js
const INPUT_DIR = process.env.INPUT_FILE || "input.txt";
const OUTPUT_DIR = "game_history";
const MODE = process.env.MODE || "production";

License

This project was created by Jakub "Eghizio" Wąsik and is open source software licensed as MIT.