Website content as a Service

A simple web service to fetch website content powered by Express and Hget.

Setup

$ npm install

Optional: Install OS dependencies for Textract (PDF to Text parsing): https://www.npmjs.com/package/textract http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html

// OS X
$ brew install caskroom/cask/pdftotext

Run the app:

$ node app
Express server listening on port 6000

Usage

For a quick test with the command line, type:

$ curl http://localhost:6000/?url=www.google.com > google.txt

Here is the complete usage documentation, also accessible on /usage.html:

# Get website content
GET /?url=www.google.com
# Return content of the www.google.com homepage

Configuration

Create a config/development.yaml or a config/production.yaml to override any of the settings found in the config/default.yaml:

content:
  command: hget        # hget cli tool [not in use]
  path: '/tmp/'        # where content files are stored [to-do]
cache:
  lifetime: 60000      # one minute, set to 0 for no cache
server:
  port: 6000           # main service port

TODO

• Allow to cache content in files

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016 Nelson Neves

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.