3. Node.js APIs and Web Scraping

Activity 4 Scraping Products and Prices from Storefront

Solution

1. Start the dynamic server to serve the storefront application using the code from Exercise 14, Serving Dynamic Content, in this chapter:

   $ node Lesson03/Activity04/
   Static resources from /path/to/repo/Lesson03/Activity04/static
   Loaded 21 products...
   Go to: http://localhost:3000

2. In a new Terminal, create a new npm package, install jsdom, and create the index.js entry file:

   $ npm init
   ...
   $ npm install jsdom
   + [email protected]
   added 97 packages from 126 contributors and audited 140 packages in 12.278s
   found 0 vulnerabilities

3. Call the require() method to load all the modules you will need in the project:

   const fs = require('fs');
   const http = require('http');
   const JSDOM = require('jsdom').JSDOM;

4. Make an HTTP request to http://localhost:3000:

   const page = 'http://localhost:3000';
   console.log(`Downloading ${page}...`);
   const request = http...