Puppet This

Puppet This is a very simple command-line tool designed to automate extracting stuff from webpages, where everyone's favorite (curl + sed) might be a bit cumbersome.

That's where puppeteer comes in handy.

While there's many good (better) libraries for scraping data with puppeteer already, this tool is designed to let you quickly hack together small scripts without having to set up a full project to do so.

Maybe you're just obsessive about writing scripts in the command line, or maybe you want a quick way of finding out when a product is back in stock on your favorite webshop. How should I know? I've never even met you.

Example CLI usage

puppet-this https://github.com/fisknils/puppet-this-cli \
    -s ./example-scripts/get-github-stars.js

Evaluating multiple scripts

puppet-this https://github.com/fisknils/puppet-this-cli \
    -s ./example-scripts/get-github-stars.js,./example-scripts/last-modified.js

Grabbing a screenshot

puppet-this https://github.com/fisknils/puppet-this-cli \
    -o ./screenshot.png

Open a browser window for manual inspection (or clicking away those nasty cookie popups for consequent runs)

    puppet-this https://github.com/fisknils/puppet-this-cli -i

Installation

npm -g i puppet-this

License

do whatever you want with it!

Links

• GitHub Repository
• NPM Package