import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee'; // Create an instance of the PlaywrightCrawler class - a crawler // that automatically loads the URLs in headless Chrome / Playwright. const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({ launchContext: { // Here you can set options that are passed to the playwright .launch() function. launchOptions: { headless: true, }, }, // Stop crawling after several pages maxRequestsPerCrawl: 50, // This function will be called for each URL to crawl. // Here you can write the Playwright scripts you are familiar with, // with the exception that browsers and pages are automatically managed by Crawlee. // The function accepts a single parameter, which is an object with a lot of properties, // the most important being: // - request: an instance of the Request class with information such as URL and HTTP method // - page: Playwright's Page object (see https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page) async requestHandler({ pushData, request, page, enqueueLinks, log }) { log.info(`Processing ${request.url}...`); // A function to be evaluated by Playwright within the browser context. const data = await page.$$eval('.athing', ($posts) => { const scrapedData: { title?: string; rank?: string; href?: string }[] = []; // We're getting the title, rank and URL of each post on Hacker News. $posts.forEach(($post) => { scrapedData.push({ title: $post.querySelector('.title a')?.innerText, rank: $post.querySelector('.rank')?.innerText, href: $post.querySelector('.title a')?.href, }); }); return scrapedData; }); // Store the results to the default dataset. await pushData(data); // Find a link to the next page and enqueue it if it exists. const infos = await enqueueLinks({ selector: '.morelink', }); if (infos.processedRequests.length === 0) log.info(`${request.url} is the last page!`); }, // This function is called if the page processing failed more than maxRequestRetries+1 times. failedRequestHandler({ request, log }) { log.info(`Request ${request.url} failed too many times.`); }, }); await crawler.addRequests(['https://news.ycombinator.com/']); // Run the crawler and wait for it to finish. await crawler.run(); console.log('Crawler finished.');