Skip to content

akeimach/article-scraper

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

17 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Medium Article Scraper

Overview

This web app scrapes articles from the news site Medium, and lets users leave comments on the latest articles. This app uses Mongoose and Cheerio to scrape articles for display.

Details

Every time a user scrapes from Medium, the articles are saved in MongoDB. The headline, summary, URL are saved in the database, as well as any comments written about an article.

Users are also able to delete comments, which will delete every user's comments.

This app is hosted on Heroku.

How to run

Run git clone https://github.com/akeimach/article-scraper.git to clone the files to your local machine, then npm init to run the install.

Packages used

  • express
  • express-handlebars
  • mongoose
  • body-parser
  • cheerio
  • request

About

Medium web scraper which saves articles to MongoDB

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published