Module: util/html

Methods

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<static> extract(ii, cb)

Extract HTML information from a URL (http/https/file).

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
ii	Object	Input Information Properties Name Type Argument Description page string URL ('http://', 'https://' or 'file://') selector string | Array.<string> CSS selector encoding string <optional> HTML encoding (default 'utf8') paginate string <optional> CSS selector for pagination result string <optional> Result object CSS selectors
cb	function	Callback Properties Name Type Description er Error Error data string | Array.<string> Output data

Example

var html = mbot.load('util/html');
html.extract({
    page: 'https://news.google.com/news/',
    selector: ['h2 > a > .titletext']
}, function(er, data) {
    if (er)
        console.log('error: ' + er);
    else
        console.log('data: ' + data.join('\n'));
});