The service uses Puppeteer, a headless Chrome, to scrape webpages. Currently it's only purpose is to provide information when a user suggests a new source. The scraper can find the icon, rss feed, name, and other relevant information for every page.

Stack

• Node v12.19.0 (a .nvmrc is presented for nvm users).
• NPM for managing dependencies.
• Fastify as the web framework

Project structure

• __tests__ - There you can find all the tests and fixtures. Tests are written using jest.
• helm - The home of the service helm chart for easily deploying it to kubernetes.
• src - This is obviously the place where you can find the source files.
  • scrape - Stores many utility functions to scrape information from a webpage.

Local environment

Daily Scraper requires nothing to run. It doesn't need any database or a service.

.env is used to set the required environment variables. It is loaded automatically by the project.

Finally run npm run dev to run the service and listen to port 5001.

Want to Help?

So you want to contribute to Daily Scraper and make an impact, we are glad to hear it. 😍

Before you proceed we have a few guidelines for contribution that will make everything much easier. We would appreciate if you dedicate the time and read them carefully: https://github.com/dailydotdev/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md