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Node.io implementation to scrape puzzles from 'http://gurmeet.net/puzzles/'
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var nodeio = require('node.io'); | |
var options = { | |
benchmark: false, | |
timeout: 999, //Timeout after 10 seconds | |
max: 1, //Run xx threads concurrently (when run() is async) | |
retries: 5, //Threads can retry x times before failing | |
auto_retry: false | |
}; | |
exports.job = new nodeio.Job(options, { | |
init: function() { }, | |
input: function(start, num, callback) { | |
if(start !== 0) return false; // We only want the input method to run once | |
var self = this; | |
this.getHtml('http://gurmeet.net/puzzles/', function(err, $) { | |
if (err) self.exit(err); | |
$('div.puzzletext').each(function(elem) { | |
var rePattern = new RegExp(/<a href="([^"]+)".*>Solution<\/a>/); | |
var arrMatches = elem.innerHTML.match(rePattern); | |
callback([arrMatches[1]]); // array to pass to run() | |
}); | |
callback(null, false); | |
}); | |
}, | |
run: function(puzzleURL) { | |
var self = this; | |
console.log("Processing url: " + puzzleURL + "..."); | |
this.getHtml(puzzleURL, function (err, $) { | |
if (err) { | |
console.log("ERROR:", err, "PuzzleURL:", puzzleURL); | |
self.retry(); | |
} | |
else { | |
var text = $('div.puzzle-text').innerHTML; | |
// Malformed HTML Hack (for certain particular puzzle) | |
if (puzzleURL.indexOf("four-points-two-distinct-distances") !== -1) | |
{ | |
var soln = $('div.puzzle-source').last().innerHTML; | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
var soln = $('div.puzzle-solution').innerHTML; | |
} | |
self.emit(text + soln); | |
} | |
}); | |
}, | |
reduce: function(lines) { | |
this.emit(lines); | |
}, | |
output: 'solution.html', | |
fail: function(input, status) { | |
console.log(input+' failed with status: '+status); | |
this.emit('failed'); | |
}, | |
complete: function(callback) { | |
console.log('Job complete.'); | |
callback(); | |
} | |
}); |
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