Web scraping

This web application uses Mongoose and Cheerio muscles to scrape news from another site and allows users leave comments on the latest news. Save data in MongoDB.

Table of Contents

• Technologies used
• Dependencies
• To Install on local machine

Technologies used

• NodeJs
• CSS3
• Javascript
• jQuery
• Handlebars
• MongoDB
• NPM packages

Dependencies

NPM packages

1. body-parser (Node.js body parsing middleware)
2. express (Web framework)
3. express-handlebars (Handlebars view engine for Express)
4. morgan (HTTP request logger middleware)
5. mongoose (Mongoose MongoDB ODM)
6. bluebird (Fully featured promise library )
7. cheerio (Core jQuery designed specifically for the server.)
8. request (Simplified HTTP request client.)

To Install on local machine

• Git Clone the repository to your local machine.

• Go to the config directory and change development environment properties.

• Navigate to the folder where the repository in Terminal.

• Run the command npm install to download the required dependencies.

• Then type node server.js in terminal inside the directory.

• Then run below address on browser.

  localhost:3000