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x-ray select
The selection parser for x-ray. Aiming to bring structure to the web.
Installation
npm install x-ray-select
Features
- Supports collections and nested collections
- Supports filters with arguments using format-parser
- Supports attribute selection
Example
var request = require('superagent');
var assert = require('assert');
var Select = require('x-ray-select');
/**
* Structure
*/
var struct = [{
$root: ".item",
link: 'a@href',
thumb: 'img@src',
content: {
$root: '.item-content',
title: 'h2',
body: 'section'
},
tags: ['.item-tags li']
}];
/**
* Fetch the HTML
*/
request.get('http://mat.io', function(err, res) {
var html = res.text;
var select = Select(html);
var arr = select(struct);
// test
var item = arr.pop();
assert.deepEqual(item, {
"link": "http://ift.tt/1xIsboY",
"thumb": "http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=http://ift.tt/1xIsboY",
"content": {
"title": "The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time",
"body": "Relive your childhood with TIME's list of the best 100 children's books of all time http://t.co/NEvBhNM4np http://ift.tt/1sk3xdM\n\n— TIME.com (@TIME) January 11, 2015"
},
"tags": [
"twitter"
]
});
});
Test
npm install
make test
License
MIT