September 2017 Update

Task/Web-scraping/CoffeeScript/web-scraping-1.coffee

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-http = require 'http'
-
-CONFIG =
-  host: 'tycho.usno.navy.mil'
-  path: '/cgi-bin/timer.pl'
-
-# Web scraping code tends to be brittle, and this is no exception.
-# The tycho time page does not use highly structured markup, so
-# we do a real dirty scrape.
-scrape_tycho_ust_time = (text) ->
-  for line in text.split '\n'
-    matches = line.match /(.*:\d\d UTC)/
-    if matches
-      console.log matches[0].replace '<BR>', ''
-      return
-  throw Error("unscrapable page!")
-
-# This is low-level-ish code to get data from a URL. It's
-# pretty general purpose, so you'd normally tuck this away
-# in a library (or use somebody else's library).
-wget = (host, path, cb) ->
-  options =
-    host: host
-    path: path
-    headers:
-      "Cache-Control": "max-age=0"
-
-  req = http.request options, (res) ->
-    s = ''
-    res.on 'data', (chunk) ->
-      s += chunk
-    res.on 'end', ->
-      cb s
-  req.end()
-
-# Do our web scrape
-do ->
-  wget CONFIG.host, CONFIG.path, (data) ->
-    scrape_tycho_ust_time data

Task/Web-scraping/CoffeeScript/web-scraping-2.coffee

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-> coffee web_scrape.coffee
-Jan. 09, 19:19:07 UTC