About Web Scrapping with Nodejs and Cheerio

Web scraping is a method to automatically harvest information from the internet, typically implemented through specialized software. This data is usually stored in a database, then processed and used in various ways. In this article, we’ll explore the steps to perform anonymous web scraping using Node.js, Tor, Puppeteer, and Cheerio.

Installing Necessary Tools

Node.js: First, you need to install Node.js. You can download Node.js from its official website (https://nodejs.org/). After downloading and installing, you can check if the installation was successful by running the node -vcommand in your terminal.

Puppeteer and Cheerio: To use Puppeteer and Cheerio in your Node.js project, open your terminal in the directory of your project and run the npm install puppeteer cheerio command.

Tor: Linux : On most Linux distributions, you can install Tor through the package manager. For Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, you can use the apt package manager: Open your terminal and enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tor

After Tor is installed, you can check if the installation was successful by running the tor command in your terminal. You should see Tor starting up and connecting to the network.