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Created October 30, 2013 09:27
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Getting the Alexa top 1 million sites directly from the server, unzipping it, parsing the csv and getting each line as an array.
var request = require('request');
var unzip = require('unzip');
var csv2 = require('csv2');
request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
.pipe(unzip.Parse())
.on('entry', function (entry) {
entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
})
;
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