Golang : How to extract links from web page ?
Golang's third party package goquery provides excellent tools to assist developers in building HTML parser/crawler. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use goquery to extract links from a web page. The code below will scan a part of the web page that is within the <div class=".nav-collapse ..." >
and <ul class=".nav..">
and extract the links.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery"
"strings"
)
func ScrapeLinks(url string) {
doc, err := goquery.NewDocument(url)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// process this part :
// <div class="nav-collapse collapse navbar-responsive-collapse">
// <ul class="nav nav-pills">
// <li>
// <a href="/references">References</a>
// </li>
// <li>
// <a href="/tutorials">Tutorials</a>
// </li>
// </ul>
// </div>
doc.Find(".nav-collapse .nav").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) {
Title := strings.TrimSpace(s.Find("li").Text()) // https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/trim-white-spaces-string-golang
// convert string to array
Fields := strings.Fields(Title)
// go deeper by 1 level to get the <a href=""></a>
doc.Find(".nav-collapse .nav a").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) {
Link, _ := s.Attr("href")
Link = url + Link
fmt.Printf("Title is [%s] and link is [%s]\n", Fields[i], Link)
})
})
}
func main() {
ScrapeLinks("https://socketloop.com")
}
Output :
Title is [References] and link is [https://socketloop.com/references]
Title is [Tutorials] and link is [https://socketloop.com/tutorials]
Bear in mind that goquery's doc.Find only look for first part of the <div class="nav-collapse collapse navbar-responsive-collapse">
.. i.e .. only
doc.Find(".nav-collapse") // will do.
in this tutorial case, because we want to dig 1 level deeper to <ul class="nav...">
we use this instead
doc.Find(".nav-collapse .nav")
Reference :
By Adam Ng
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