extract-content

A service which has an endpoint to extract data from an URL using CSS selectors

You may see example of use on this pen on CodePen.io.

I have also made a test page where you can try it out: Extract content from any website.

You can read a series of post about the project on Medium.com: Let’s build a content extract endpoint.

Endpoints

Returns a JSON object with fetched texts from the specified selectors.

Example request:

from=https://www.dr.dk &extract=%7B"overskrift"%3A".dredition-summary"%7D

The extract values have been encoded using encodeURIComponent.

Original json value:

{"overskrift":"p"}

Same json value encoded:

%7B%22overskrift%22%3A%22p%22%7D

parameter	description	required
from	The url to fetch content from	Yes
extract	json object with `name:selector`	yes

Returns a JSON with either the whole HTML from the specified from url, or as with / endpoint, but not the text but the html.

parameter	description	required
from	The url to fetch content from	Yes
extract	json object with `name:selector`	no

Created by Sten Hougaard, Marts 2018. @netsi1964.