I'm trying to write a web crawler program using quickscrape, after I type

quickscrape \
  --url  \
  --scraper journal-scrapers/scrapers/peerj.json \
  --output peerj-384
  --outformat bibjson

and hit the "Enter" in my terminal, the library will generate the result from the crawler and put them into a folder.

Now I want to write a javascript progarm so that is will call these terminal mands for me, but I am not sure how to interact with terminal in node.js.

I'm trying to write a web crawler program using quickscrape, after I type

quickscrape \
  --url https://peerj./articles/384 \
  --scraper journal-scrapers/scrapers/peerj.json \
  --output peerj-384
  --outformat bibjson

and hit the "Enter" in my terminal, the library will generate the result from the crawler and put them into a folder.

Now I want to write a javascript progarm so that is will call these terminal mands for me, but I am not sure how to interact with terminal in node.js.

• javascript
• node.js
• web-crawler

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• Possible duplicate of Execute and get the output of a shell mand in node.js – Damjan Pavlica Commented Jul 17, 2018 at 12:58

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I think child_process is that you need. https://nodejs/api/child_process.html

let exec = require('child_process').exec;
exec('quickscrape --url https://peerj./articles/384 --scraper journal-scrapers/scrapers/peerj.json --output peerj-384 --outformat bibjson', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
    //...
})