Beatport Scraper

A scraper for music data, using Beatport as source

Installation

The package is available on npm, yarn and gpr (github package registry).

NPM & Yarn

$ npm i beatport-scraper # npm

$ yarn add beatport-scraper # yarn

Github Package Registry

Create a .npmrc with the line below:

@wesselsmit:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com

Install the package in the CLI

$ npm i @wesselsmit/beatport-scraper

Usage

This scraper gets data from an artist or label Beatport account.

• url string: URL of Beatport account to scrape. (required)
• log boolean: Log progress in console. (optional, defaults to false)
• raw boolean: Return data unformatted. (optional, defaults to false)

Example

The example scrapes all data from Seven Lions's Beatport account.

const scrape = require('@wesselsmit/beatport-scraper') // using gpr
const scrape = require('beatport-scraper') // using npm or yarn

const config = {
    url: 'https://www.beatport.com/artist/seven-lions/241780',
    log: true, // optional
    raw: false // optional
}

scrape(config)
    .then(data => console.log(data))

Disclaimer

The nature of web scraping is that when the HTML/website changes, the web scraper will inevitably fail. Beatport has every right to change/improve their UI as they see fit. This scraper relies on the DOM structure and selectors to navigate the website and identify data. Changes to Beatport's website can cause the scraper to break!

Maintaince

Status: working (last checked: August 15th, 2020)

As explained in disclaimer, this scraper might break in the future if Beatport has changed their website.

To make troubleshooting and maintaince easier the scraper relies on as little as possible DOM selectors and DOM specific code. All code specific to the Beatport website is either in the scraper.js script or in the selectors.js module.

Recommended first steps for troubleshooting/maintaince:

• check if the DOM selectors in the selectors.js module are still up to date with the website.
• check if the lines marked with //! Subject to change comments in scraper.js are still up to date with the website.