Get Film with SWAPI - Star Wars API on New Scraping Completed from WebScraper.IO API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a WebScraper.IO trigger and SWAPI - Star Wars action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Scraping Completed trigger
1. Connect your WebScraper.IO account
2. Configure timer
Configure the Get Film action
1. Connect your SWAPI - Star Wars account
2. Select a film
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Scraping Completed on WebScraper.IO

Description:Emit new event when a page scraping job has completed. [See the docs here](https://webscraper.io/documentation/web-scraper-cloud/api)

Version:0.0.1

Key:webscraper_io-new-scraping-completed

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WebScraper.IO Overview#

The WebScraper.IO API allows you to programmatically perform web scraping tasks, extracting structured data from websites. With the API, you can automate the gathering of web content for analysis, monitoring, and integration with other data sources. In Pipedream, you can leverage this API to build workflows that process, analyze, and act on the data you scrape without writing code for backend infrastructure.

Trigger Code#

import common from "../common/base.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "webscraper_io-new-scraping-completed",
  name: "New Scraping Completed",
  description: "Emit new event when a page scraping job has completed. [See the docs here](https://webscraper.io/documentation/web-scraper-cloud/api)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  methods: {
    ...common.methods,
    async emitHistoricalEvents({ limit }) {
      const jobs = await this.getScrapingJobs();
      if (!(jobs?.length > 0)) {
        return;
      }
      jobs.reverse().slice(0, limit)
        .forEach((job) => this.emitEvent(job));
    },
    isRelevant(job, previousIds) {
      return job.status === "finished" && !previousIds[job.id];
    },
    emitEvent(job) {
      const meta = this.generateMeta(job);
      this.$emit(job, meta);
    },
    generateMeta(job) {
      return {
        id: job.id,
        summary: job.sitemap_name,
        ts: job.time_created,
      };
    },
    async getScrapingJobs() {
      const jobs = [];
      const previousIds = this._getPreviousIds();

      const results = await this.webscraper.paginate(this.webscraper.getScrapingJobs);
      for (const job of results) {
        if (this.isRelevant(job, previousIds)) {
          previousIds[job.id] = true;
          jobs.push(job);
        }
      }

      this._setPreviousIds(previousIds);

      return jobs;
    },
  },
  async run() {
    const jobs = await this.getScrapingJobs();
    jobs.forEach((job) => this.emitEvent(job));
  },
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
WebScraper.IO	`webscraper`	`app`	This component uses the WebScraper.IO app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`

Trigger Authentication#

WebScraper.IO uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your WebScraper.IO account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to WebScraper.IO APIs in both code and no-code steps.

" To retrieve your API token,

Navigate to your Web Scraper account and sign in
Go to “Account Info” > “API settings”"

About WebScraper.IO#

Making web data extraction easy and accessible for everyone.

Action#

Get Film on SWAPI - Star Wars

Description:Get a film

Version:0.0.13

Key:swapi-get-film

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SWAPI - Star Wars Overview#

The SWAPI - Star Wars API is a treasure trove of structured data from the Star Wars universe. It's a go-to resource for fetching information about planets, spaceships, vehicles, people, films, and species from the iconic franchise. Using Pipedream, you can harness this data to create automations and workflows that trigger based on specific criteria from SWAPI. For instance, you could set up a workflow that notifies you when new data is added, enrich customer profiles with their favorite Star Wars characters, or even use it for trivia games by pulling random facts.

Action Code#

const swapi = require("../../swapi.app.js");
const axios = require("axios");

module.exports = {
  key: "swapi-get-film",
  name: "Get Film",
  version: "0.0.13",
  description: "Get a film",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    swapi,
    film: {
      propDefinition: [
        swapi,
        "film",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run() {
    return (await axios({
      url: `https://swapi.dev/api/films/${this.film}`,
    })).data;
  },
};