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April 9, 2014 12:49
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Scrape a webpage, optionally giving just the HTML of the specified selector
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| /** | |
| * Usage: phantomjs scrape.js URL [selector] | |
| * selector defaults to `#content` | |
| */ | |
| var page = require('webpage').create(), | |
| system = require('system'); | |
| if (system.args.length < 2 || system.args.length > 3) { | |
| console.log('Usage: phantomjs scrape.js URL [selector]'); | |
| console.log(' selector defaults to `#content`'); | |
| phantom.exit(1); | |
| } else { | |
| page.open(system.args[1], function (status) { | |
| if (status !== 'success') { | |
| console.log('Unable to access network'); | |
| } else { | |
| var p = page.evaluate(function (selector) { | |
| return document.querySelector(selector).innerHTML; | |
| }, system.args[2] ? system.args[2] : "#content"); | |
| console.log(p); | |
| } | |
| phantom.exit(); | |
| }); | |
| }; |
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