TechCrunch API 🧑‍💻

TechCrunch API is a Node.js package that allows you to scrape articles from TechCrunch based on categories or tags. This package is designed for systems using Ubuntu or other Debian-based distributions that support sudo commands, leveraging Puppeteer to navigate and scrape content from a headless Chromium environment. 🌐

Features 🚀

• Scrape by Category: Automatically retrieve all articles under a specified category. 📂
• Scrape by Tag: Collect articles that are tagged with a specific keyword. 🏷️
• Headless Browser Support: Runs Chromium in headless mode to scrape dynamic content. 👻
• Optimized for Ubuntu: Includes installation instructions specifically for Ubuntu, but compatible with other Linux distributions. 🐧

Prerequisites 📋

Before installing the TechCrunch Scraper, you need to ensure your system has the following dependencies installed:

• Node.js (Version 14 or later recommended) 🟢
• Puppeteer 🎭
• Dependencies required for Puppeteer and headless Chromium 🔧

Installation

Follow these steps to set up the TechCrunch Scraper package:

Step 1: Install System Dependencies

Open a terminal and execute the following commands to install necessary libraries:

npm install puppeteer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libgbm-dev xvfb chromium-browser libvpx7 libevent-2.1-7 libharfbuzz-icu0  libwebpdemux2 libenchant-2-2 libsecret-1-0  libmanette-0.2-0 libflite1  libgles2-mesa
Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1920x1080x24 &
export DISPLAY=:99

Step 2: Install TechCrunch API Package

Install the package via npm with the following command:

npm install techcrunch-api

Usage

After installation, you can use the package in your Node.js scripts as follows:

ES6 Syntax

import { getByCategory, getByTag } from "techcrunch-api";

// Fetch articles by category using async/await
// Valid categories/tags for fetching articles (must be used in lowercase):
// 1. media-entertainment
// 2. transportation
// 3. cryptocurrency
// 4. security
// 5. artificial-intelligence
// 6. apps
// 7. fintech
// 8. startups
// 9. venture
// 10. hardware

const fetchArticles = async () => {
  try {
    const articles = await getByCategory("security"); 
    console.log(articles);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error fetching articles:", error);
  }
};

fetchArticles();

const fetchTag = async () => {
  try {
    const tags = await getByTag("apis");
    console.log(tags);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error fetching tags:", error);
  }
};

fetchTag();

Running the Scraper

node app.js