Terrible documentation

[jsDobromir]

I appreciate your efforts to create this, but have nod idea how to start it, the explanation is more confusing than helpful.

[anilabhadatta]

Clone the repo,
Download the respective Chrome Binary for your operating system from the releases section and extract it inside the Chrome-bin folder,

Run python chromedriver.py in a terminal
Run python educative_scraper.py in a separate terminal

Generate the config for first time use.
For urls.txt file path, add the full path to URLs.txt file
eg, C:/Desktop/urls.txt

config file eg

In URLs txt file you should add the URLs of the first topic from a specific course.
eg ;

In urls.txt file it should show like this;

Starting Index is only required if you are scraping from a particular topic otherwise not required.

[jsDobromir]

Tnx for answer.
I am on Ubuntu and getting this error: Main Exception Message: unknown error: no chrome binary at /home/dobromir/Documents/env/educative.io_scraper-master/Chrome-bin/linux/chrome/chrome

[jsDobromir]

After creating /linux/chrome/chrome and dropping the chrome binary there, getting this error: **Main Exception Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /home/dobromir/Documents/env/educative.io_scraper-master/Chrome-bin/linux/chrome/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
**

[anilabhadatta]

@jsDobromir which chrome-bin did you download?
and is your ubuntu running on arm64 or amd64 architecture?
I think you should also restart your OS once , maybe some process is causing issues.

[jsDobromir]

Its amd64, restarted, same issue. Thats what I get when I try to open it in the browser.

[anilabhadatta]

@jsDobromir Let me check, i may need you to share your screen

[anilabhadatta]

@jsDobromir Is your issue resolved and should I close this issue?