Mobilize Scraper

I was moving my community off Mobilize and wanted to have the data of my team formatted in a specific way.

I built this scraper to pull the data out.

There is an optional CSV formatter as I needed it to add people to a group in G Suite.

Prerequisites

• Be a member in a Mobilize Group
• npm install

Using it

Set the following things in your environment:

• DOMAIN: this is the subdomain xxx.mobilize.io that your group lives under. Just pass in the xxx part.
• GROUP_ID: this is a number that represents your account on Mobilize - it can be found in the URL when browsing your group
• COOKIE: You need to be authenticated to use this, so you need to extract your session cookie from a browser. There's an example below.

Then you just need to do npm start.

Here's an example:

DOMAIN=freemanindustries GROUP_ID=123 COOKIE="see example below" npm start

The user list will be outputted in results.json in the top level directory. Make sure you move this somewhere else before running again as it will be overwritten.

progress.json is also generated and periodically updated to allow fast resuming in the event of an error.

Cookie formatting

The cookie should look like this:

_mobilize_session_r=65592d8afakeGUIDsothisisnotarealcookie8fca51; Expires=Thu, 20 Apr 2021 16:20:69 GMT; Domain=mobilize.io; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly`;

Set the whole string as your environment variable,

The other cookies in your browser aren't needed for API access.

CSV conversion

npm run csv

This turns your results.json into a CSV file that most parts of G Suite can ingest.

It will not run unless there is a results.json file in the top level directory.

It outputs a results.csv in the top level directory.