Re:Osmosis: Web scraper for Node.js
by jlas on Sunday April 05, 2015 @07:22PM
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Scraping in Node.js is just not worth it. IMHO the asynchronicity really gets in the way of building a scraper.
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I don't know about libxml, but normally you'd not need to do any I/O once you've gotten hold of the raw HTML - so there should be no need for callbacks. E.g. with cheerio you can parse HTML synchronously.