super-simple-crawler

Super Simple Crawler

A super simple crawler for crawling websites and reporting back stats.

Installation

npm install -S super-simple-crawler

Usage

import simpleCrawler from 'super-simple-crawler';

const crawler = simpleCrawler({ url: 'http://madole.xyz' });

crawler.on('response', {status, responseTime, body, size} => {
    console.log(status);
    console.log(responseTime);
    console.log(depthLimit);
    console.log(size);
});

crawler.on('done', () => {
    console.log('Finished crawling');
});

Parameters

simpleCrawler takes an object as a parameter.

• url - string: the url to crawl
• maxDepthLimit - number: the depth which to crawl, defaults to 2

Events

response

• status - string: the response status (HTTP Code)
• responseTime - number: the time taken for the server to respond to the request
• depthLimit - number: the depth which the URL features in the site
• size - number: the size, in bytes, of the response
• path - string: the path of the url eg. '/glendalough-double-barrel'
• url - string: the full url of eg. 'http://whiskeynerds.com/glendalough-double-barrel/'
• response - object: the whole response object

done

The done event is fired when there are either no more urls to crawl, or the maximum depth limit has been reached.