readme.md

graphql-scraper-server

Instantly set up a graphql-scraper server for all of your web scraping needs.

This is a super-simple module which simply ties together graphql-scraper and graphql-yoga.

1-click deploy

local install

git clone https://github.com/lachenmayer/graphql-scraper-server
yarn # or npm install
yarn start # or npm start

ok great, what now?

Point your browser to wherever you deployed the server, and you will see a graphql-playground.

You can use this to send queries to your brand new server, or to explore the graphql-scraper schema documentation interactively.

You can also send GraphQL queries to the server (the query endpoint is also at /) using your favourite GraphQL client.

If you can't think of a good query to try out, try this one:

{
  page(url: "http://news.ycombinator.com") {
    items: queryAll(selector: "tr.athing") {
      rank: text(selector: "td span.rank")
      title: text(selector: "td.title a")
      sitebit: text(selector: "span.comhead a")
      url: attr(selector: "td.title a", name: "href")
      attrs: next {
        score: text(selector: "span.score")
        user: text(selector: "a:first-of-type")
        comments: text(selector: "a:nth-of-type(3)")
      }
    }
  }
}