compare-iphone-models

Scrape JSON formatted list data from https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ for programmatic comparisons

Updated 2020/10/14

It'll need to be updated again if Apple changes the HTML structure of the page.

PRs welcome.

Files

• save-data.ts

  Deno script for

  • downloading the HTML of the compare page, or
  • parsing JSON data from stdin

  and saving the result locally to ./data

• scrape.js

  Userscript for scraping the data on the comparison website

Use

1. Navigate to https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ or to the cached html file in ./data/apple-iphone-compare-cached_<TIMESTAMP>.html. You can cache a new one with:

deno run --allow-net --allow-read=. --allow-write=. save-data.ts download

2. Copy the contents of scrape.user.js and then paste and run it in your browser's JS console.

3. Copy the console logged JSON string (60+ kB) to your clipboard.

4. Save it however you want, or piping from your CLI clipboard utility to the Deno script:

• Linux: xclip
• macOS: pbpaste
• Windows (My best guess for Powershell, but not sure 🤷‍♂️): Get-Clipboard

Example:

pbpaste | deno run --allow-net --allow-read=. --allow-write=. save-data.ts stdin

5. Analyze the JSON data file.