Cathode is a free cloud-based, crowdsourced, developer friendly and incredibly simple to use scraping engine for the web of data.
cathode-cli is a command line tool that uses Cathode's API and helps developers to build and test their scrap formulas.
Installation
To install cathode-cli using npm:
npm install cathode-cli -g
Usage
To use cathode-cli, just type cathode from your terminal command line:
Usage: cathode [options] <url>
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-f, --file <srapfile> use local scrap file
-s, --scope <scope> query scope. Use with -q
-q, --query <query> query expression
-x, --search <string> search string, return probable expression
Before you start using Cathode, you should understand what scrap files are.