ts-crawlee-cheerio

TypeScript Crawlee & CheerioCrawler template

A template example built with Crawlee to scrape data from a website using Cheerio wrapped into CheerioCrawler.

Included features

• Apify SDK - toolkit for building Actors
• Crawlee - web scraping and browser automation library
• Input schema - define and easily validate a schema for your Actor's input
• Dataset - store structured data where each object stored has the same attributes
• Cheerio - a fast, flexible & elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML

How it works

This code is a TypeScript script that uses Crawlee CheerioCrawler framework to crawl a website and extract the data from the crawled URLs with Cheerio. It then stores the website titles in a dataset.

• The crawler starts with URLs provided from the input startUrls field defined by the input schema. Number of scraped pages is limited by maxPagesPerCrawl field from input schema.
• The crawler uses requestHandler for each URL to extract the data from the page with the Cheerio library and to save the title and URL of each page to the dataset. It also logs out each result that is being saved.

Resources

• Video tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
• Written tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
• Web scraping with Cheerio in 2023
• How to scrape a dynamic page using Cheerio
• TypeScript vs. JavaScript: which to use for web scraping?
• Integration with Zapier, Make, Google Drive and others
• Video guide on getting scraped data using Apify API
• A short guide on how to build web scrapers using code templates:

web scraper template