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Web Scraper and Cheerio Scraper already have READMEs and schemas of sufficient quality, but Puppeteer Scraper is lacking. The structure and format should be exactly the same as the existing ones, but the contents will differ. In some places not so much, in other places a lot.
Whoever attempts this should:
read the tutorials for all the scrapers, to understand how they work
reuse as much as possible from the existing readmes, no need to reinvent the wheel, but make sure that the differences are not missed or obscured in the readme. Ideally, we would point out the differences where appropriate
while writing, run the scraper regularly with different inputs to see what they actually do and how they work
INPUT_SCHEMA.json description fields need to be updated and changed too, see input schemas of Web/Cheerio for inspiration. The descriptions are shown in the scraper UI as tooltips, so the descriptions need to look good in the UI.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
To see the changes on the Apify platform, one must first build the scraper. To do that:
Create a new actor on the Apify platform
Go to Source tab
Under Source code, select Type: Git repository
Add the git URL of your fork. Example for this repository: https://github.com/apifytech/actor-crawler.git#master:puppeteer-scraper. Your URL will be similar but different.
Click Save and then Build now.
The Developer Console below should refresh with the new changes. If not, refresh your browser window.
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Puppeteer Scraper tutorial and input schema improvements
Puppeteer Scraper readme and input schema improvements
Apr 16, 2021
Web Scraper and Cheerio Scraper already have READMEs and schemas of sufficient quality, but Puppeteer Scraper is lacking. The structure and format should be exactly the same as the existing ones, but the contents will differ. In some places not so much, in other places a lot.
Whoever attempts this should:
description
fields need to be updated and changed too, see input schemas of Web/Cheerio for inspiration. The descriptions are shown in the scraper UI as tooltips, so the descriptions need to look good in the UI.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: