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JSDOM Scraper

JSDOM Scraper

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Apify

Apify

Maintained by Apify

Parses the HTML using the JSDOM library, providing the same DOM API as browsers do (e.g. `window`). It is able to process client-side JavaScript without using a real browser. Performance-wise, it stands somewhere between the Cheerio Scraper and the browser scrapers.

4.3 (3)

Pricing

Pay per usage

5

Total users

92

Monthly users

4

Runs succeeded

80%

Last modified

15 days ago

You can access the JSDOM Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11 "startUrls": [
12 {
13 "url": "https://crawlee.dev/js"
14 }
15 ],
16 "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
17 "globs": [
18 {
19 "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/js/*/*"
20 }
21 ],
22 "pseudoUrls": [],
23 "excludes": [
24 {
25 "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
26 }
27 ],
28 "linkSelector": "a[href]",
29 "pageFunction": async function pageFunction(context) {
30 const { window, request, log } = context;
31
32 // The "window" property contains the JSDOM object which is useful
33 // for querying DOM elements and extracting data from them.
34 const pageTitle = window.document.title;
35
36 // The "request" property contains various information about the web page loaded.
37 const url = request.url;
38
39 // Use "log" object to print information to Actor log.
40 log.info('Page scraped', { url, pageTitle });
41
42 // Return an object with the data extracted from the page.
43 // It will be stored to the resulting dataset.
44 return {
45 url,
46 pageTitle
47 };
48 },
49 "proxyConfiguration": {
50 "useApifyProxy": true
51 },
52 "initialCookies": [],
53 "additionalMimeTypes": [],
54 "preNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
55 // The functions accept two arguments: the "crawlingContext" object
56 // and "requestAsBrowserOptions" which are passed to the `requestAsBrowser()`
57 // function the crawler calls to navigate..
58 [
59 async (crawlingContext, requestAsBrowserOptions) => {
60 // ...
61 }
62 ]`,
63 "postNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
64 // The functions accept a single argument: the "crawlingContext" object.
65 [
66 async (crawlingContext) => {
67 // ...
68 },
69 ]`,
70 "customData": {}
71};
72
73// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
74const run = await client.actor("apify/jsdom-scraper").call(input);
75
76// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
77console.log('Results from dataset');
78console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
79const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
80items.forEach((item) => {
81 console.dir(item);
82});
83
84// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

JSDOM Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use JSDOM Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include: