Board of Medicine Scraper

Goes through the Idaho Board of Medicine and gets all newly licensed doctors.

Getting Started

Clone the repository, run npm i, and then npm run getNewContacts in a terminal/bash/command prompt.

You will also need to rename src/sample-config.ts to src/config.ts. This file has example database connections for a mongo connnection and a url for a discord webhook. Valid credentials are required without making some serious code changes.

To run on ubuntu:

npm run getNewContacts:ubuntu

These dependences are also required:

sudo apt-get install libx11-xcb1 libxcomposite1 libXdamage1 libxi6 libxext6 libxtst6 libnss3 libcups2 libxss1 libxrandr2 libasound2 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libgtk-3-0

To run with the chrome browser running:

npm run getNewContacts:withHead

Prerequisites

Tested on Node v8.11.2 and NPM v5.6.0.

Installing

After installing NodeJS you should be able to just run the following in the terminal.

npm i

Built With

• Puppeteer - Scraping library
• NodeJS - NodeJS

Authors

• Jordan Hansen - Initial work - Jordan Hansen

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License