Stackoverflow Web Scraping Guide

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Setting Up Your Coding Environment

Before building the application, you’ll need to set up a basic Node environment. Follow these steps to get started:

Installing Node.js

Windows

1. Visit the official Node.js website: https://nodejs.org.
2. Download the LTS (Long-Term Support) version for Windows.
3. Run the installer and follow the setup wizard (keep default options).
4. Verify installation:

node -v
npm -v

macOS

1. Go to https://nodejs.org and download the macOS installer (LTS).
2. Follow the installation wizard.
3. Verify installation::

node -v
npm -v

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)

1. Install Node.js LTS via NodeSource:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

2. Verify installation:

node -v
npm -v

Obtaining API Credentials

1. Sign up for a Crawlbase account and log in.
2. Upon registration, you’ll receive 5,000 free requests to get started.
3. Navigate to your Account Docs and copy your Crawling API token (Normal requests token).

Running the Example Scripts

Before running the examples, ensure that you replace all instances of the following placeholders:

<Normal requests token> - Replace this with your Crawling API requests token.

Running the Script

To run generic scraper

npm run generic

To run custom scraper

npm run custom

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