A flexible Node.js multifunctional crawler library —— x-crawl

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x-crawl

x-crawl is a flexible Node.js multifunctional crawler library. Flexible usage and numerous functions can help you quickly, safely, and stably crawl pages, interfaces, and files.

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GitHub：https://github.com/coder-hxl/x-crawl

Features

• 🔥 Asynchronous Synchronous - Just change the mode property to toggle asynchronous or synchronous crawling mode.
• ⚙️ Multiple purposes - It can crawl pages, crawl interfaces, crawl files and poll crawls to meet the needs of various scenarios.
• 🖋️ Flexible writing style - The same crawling API can be adapted to multiple configurations, and each configuration method is very unique.
• ⏱️ Interval Crawling - No interval, fixed interval and random interval to generate or avoid high concurrent crawling.
• 🔄 Failed Retry - Avoid crawling failure due to short-term problems, and customize the number of retries.
• ➡️ Proxy Rotation - Auto-rotate proxies with failure retry, custom error times and HTTP status codes.
• 👀 Device Fingerprinting - Zero configuration or custom configuration, avoid fingerprinting to identify and track us from different locations.
• 🚀 Priority Queue - According to the priority of a single crawling target, it can be crawled ahead of other targets.
• ☁️ Crawl SPA - Crawl SPA (Single Page Application) to generate pre-rendered content (aka "SSR" (Server Side Rendering)).
• ⚒️ Control Page - You can submit form, keyboard input, event operation, generate screenshots of the page, etc.
• 🧾 Capture Record - Capture and record crawling, and use colored strings to remind in the terminal.
• 🦾 TypeScript - Own types, implement complete types through generics.

Example

Take the automatic acquisition of some photos of experiences and homes around the world every day as an example:

// 1.Import module ES/CJS
import xCrawl from 'x-crawl'

// 2.Create a crawler instance
const myXCrawl = xCrawl({maxRetry: 3,intervalTime: { max: 3000, min: 2000 }})

// 3.Set the crawling task
/*
  Call the startPolling API to start the polling function,
  and the callback function will be called every other day
*/
myXCrawl.startPolling({ d: 1 }, async (count, stopPolling) => {
  // Call crawlPage API to crawl Page
  const res = await myXCrawl.crawlPage({
    targets: [
      'https://www.airbnb.cn/s/experiences',
      'https://www.airbnb.cn/s/plus_homes'
    ],
    viewport: { width: 1920, height: 1080 }
  })

  // Store the image URL to targets
  const targets = []
  const elSelectorMap = ['._fig15y', '._aov0j6']
  for (const item of res) {
    const { id } = item
    const { page } = item.data

    // Wait for the page to load
    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 300))

    // Gets the URL of the page image
    const urls = await page.$$eval(
      `${elSelectorMap[id - 1]} img`,
      (imgEls) => {
        return imgEls.map((item) => item.src)
      }
    )
    targets.push(...urls)

    // Close page
    page.close()
  }

  // Call the crawlFile API to crawl pictures
  myXCrawl.crawlFile({ targets, storeDir: './upload' })
})

running result:

Note: Do not crawl at will, you can check the robots.txt protocol before crawling. This is just to demonstrate how to use x-crawl.

More

For more detailed documentation, please check: https://github.com/coder-hxl/x-crawl

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If you have questions, needs, or good suggestions, you can raise them at GitHub Issues.