Welcome to the Ultimate Guide to Grabity API

Grabity is a powerful tool designed for web scraping and data extraction. This guide aims to introduce you to several useful APIs provided by Grabity, complete with code snippets and an application example.

Getting Started with Grabity

Installation is simple and straightforward. Use the following command to install Grabity:

npm install grabity

Basic Usage

Below is a basic usage example where we extract metadata from a webpage.

const grabity = require("grabity");

(async () => {
  const it = await grabity.grabIt("https://example.com");
  console.log(it);
})();

Advanced Features

Extracting Open Graph Data

Open Graph data extraction can be done easily using Grabity.

(async () => {
  const ogData = await grabity.grabIt("https://example.com", { ogOnly: true });
  console.log(ogData);
})();

Extracting Specific Metadata

If you are only interested in specific metadata, you can specify the fields you need.

(async () => {
  const metaTags = ["description", "keywords"];
  const options = { filter: metaTags };
  const metaData = await grabity.grabIt("https://example.com", options);
  console.log(metaData);
})();

Error Handling

Proper error handling is crucial in a production environment.

(async () => {
  try {
    const data = await grabity.grabIt("https://example.com");
    console.log(data);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("An error occurred:", error);
  }
})();

Application Example: Creating a Metadata Scraping App

Below is an example of an application that uses Grabity to scrape metadata from multiple websites.

const express = require("express");
const grabity = require("grabity");

const app = express();
const PORT = 3000;

app.get('/scrape', async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const urls = ["https://example.com", "https://anotherexample.com"];
    const results = await Promise.all(urls.map(url => grabity.grabIt(url)));
    res.json(results);
  } catch (error) {
    res.status(500).send("An error occurred: " + error.message);
  }
});

app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Server is running on port ${PORT}`);
});

With this application, you can scrape metadata by navigating to http://localhost:3000/scrape in your web browser.

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