Lenovo Outlet Scraper

About

This project is a tool that fetches laptop deals from the Lenovo US Outlet and returns a JSON with data to standard output.

Getting started

Requirements

• Node.js (tested on v13.6.0)

Setup

Clone the repository and install dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/hajekjiri/lenovo-outlet-scraper.git
cd lenovo-outlet-scraper
npm install

Running the scraper

You can either use the incuded app npm-run-script or run main.js directly.

Using the npm-run-script

npm run app --silent -- <args>

Running main.js

node ./src/main.js <args>

Options

--help

Show list of options

--version

Show version number

--no-out-of-stock

Ignore laptops that are out of stock

--no-refurbished

Ignore refurbished laptops

--no-new

Ignore new laptops

Development

Additional requirements

• npx

npm install -g npx

Testing

Mocha is the framework of choice for testing. All tests are located in the test folder. Use the test npm-run-script to run tests.

npm run test

Code style

This project is following the Google JavaScript Style Guide. Use the lint npm-run-script to check whether the code is compliant.

npm run lint

Documentation

Documentation can be generated with the doc npm-run-script using JSDoc and then accessed at docs/index.html.

npm run doc

Used external modules

• axios/axios is licensed under the MIT license
• cheeriojs/cheerio is licensed under the MIT license
• yargs/yargs is licensed under the MIT license