hamro-patro-scraper/routes/gold.js

A package to scrape Nepali date, time, daily horoscope, gold and silver rates and exchange rates from Hamro Patro.

const axios = require("axios");
const cheerio = require("cheerio");

const url = "https://www.hamropatro.com/gold";

const getGoldPrices = async () => {
  try {
    const { data } = await axios.get(url);
    const $ = cheerio.load(data);

    const articleTitle = $("h2.articleTitle span").text();
    const updatedAt = $("p > b").text();
    const desText = $("p.des_text").text();

    const goldSilverTexts = [];
    $("ul.gold-silver > li").each((i, elem) => {
      goldSilverTexts.push($(elem).text().trim());
    });

    const goldPrices = [];
    for (let i = 0; i < goldSilverTexts.length; i += 2) {
      if (i + 1 < goldSilverTexts.length) {
        goldPrices.push({
          id: i / 2 + 1,
          price: `${goldSilverTexts[i]} - ${goldSilverTexts[i + 1]}`,
        });
      } else {
        goldPrices.push({
          id: i / 2 + 1,
          price: goldSilverTexts[i],
        });
      }
    }

    const result = {
      title: articleTitle,
      updatedAt: updatedAt,
      description: desText,
      goldPrices: goldPrices,
    };

    return result;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error fetching the page:", error);
    throw error;
  }
};

module.exports = getGoldPrices;