//Import/require modules needed to crawl the schoolmaster schedules. var http = require('http'); var cheerio = require('cheerio'); var iconv = require('iconv-lite'); //Define schooltypes that need to be ripped. var scheduletypes = [ 'Klasrooster', 'Docentrooster', 'Leerlingrooster', 'Lokaalrooster' ]; var schoolid; //Function for getting pages with http requests. function get(callback) { var index = []; //Go past all of the scheduletypes and download their pages. for (scheduletype of scheduletypes) { (function (scheduletype) { var link = 'http://roosters5.gepro-osi.nl/roosters/rooster.php?school=' + schoolid + '&type=' + scheduletype; scheduletype = scheduletype.replace(/rooster/g, '').toLowerCase(); http.get(link, function (res) { var _download = ''; res.on('data', function (data) { _download += data; }); res.on('end', function () { var list = extract(_download); if (scheduletype == 'leerling') { for(studentcategory of list) { http.get('http://' + res.req.socket._host + res.req.path + '&afdeling=' + studentcategory, function (res) { var _download = ''; res.on('data', function (data) { _download += iconv.decode(data, 'binary'); }); res.on('end', function () { var list = cheerio('select', _download).children(); for (student in list) { if (!isNaN(student)) { var name = cheerio(list[student]).text().split(' - ')[1]; var id = cheerio(list[student]).val(); var database_entry = { 'id' : id, 'full_name' : name, 'first_name' : name.split(' ')[0], 'last_name' : name.split(' ').splice(1).join(' '), 'type' : scheduletype } index.push(database_entry); } } }); }); } callback(index); } else { for (entry of list) { var database_entry = { 'name' : entry, 'type' : scheduletype } index.push(database_entry); } } }); }); })(scheduletype); } } //Function for extracting the lists with useful information from the crawled pages. //(e.g Student names/ids, Teacher codes, Chamber numbers) function extract(page) { var array = cheerio('select', page).text().split('\n'); return array.splice(1, array.length - 2); } //Function being called to access functionality from this module. function crawl(sid) { schoolid = sid; var times = 0; get(function (data) { console.log(data); }); } crawl(934);