import { PuppeteerCrawler } from 'crawlee'; // Create an instance of the PuppeteerCrawler class - a crawler // that automatically loads the URLs in headless Chrome / Puppeteer. const crawler = new PuppeteerCrawler({ // Here you can set options that are passed to the launchPuppeteer() function. launchContext: { launchOptions: { headless: true, // Other Puppeteer options }, }, // Stop crawling after several pages maxRequestsPerCrawl: 50, // This function will be called for each URL to crawl. // Here you can write the Puppeteer 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 the following fields: // - request: an instance of the Request class with information such as URL and HTTP method // - page: Puppeteer's Page object (see https://pptr.dev/#show=api-class-page) async requestHandler({ pushData, request, page, enqueueLinks, log }) { log.info(`Processing ${request.url}...`); // A function to be evaluated by Puppeteer 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.error(`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.');