stiekel / aliexpress

An AliExpress spider for Node

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aliexpress's Issues

Is there a way to know when the product was listed?

Hi,

This library is very useful.
Is there a way to know when the product was listed?
Also, it seems that aliexpress is not showing best selling products anymore.

Compile to ES5 before publishing to NPM

Hi there, would it be possible to compile this module to ES5 before the NPM publish? This would resolve lots of problems for me, as I want to use it with meteor, which assumes all NPM packages in ES5 right now.

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'window.lib.mtop.config.prefix="acs"')

info: Error: 当前浏览器不支持Promise，请在windows对象上挂载Promise对象可参考（http://gitlab.alibaba-inc.com/mtb/lib-es6polyfill/tree/master）中的解决方案
info:   https://i.alicdn.com/aew-channel-ui/1.0.0/weex/mtop/mtop-2.3.16.js:1
info: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'window.lib.mtop.config.prefix="acs"')
info:   https://i.alicdn.com/ae-header/20181022224448/buyer/front/ae-header.js:12

Time out on AWS Lambda

Hello, I am attempting to use this package on an AWS Lambda function, however it keeps timing out without any explanation as to why. I have made some small edits to the package for my own personal taste, but none of these changes stop it from working on my local Windows environment or on a Centos environment on a VPS.

This is my current code:

const aliexpress = require('aliexpress');

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
	aliexpress.scrape('http://bestselling.aliexpress.com/en?spm=2114.11010108.21.4.dkHNPl', (err, $) => {
		if(err) {
			callback(err);
		} else {
			const goods = [];
			$('#bestselling-top10 .item-desc').each((key, lk) => {
				if(lk && lk.attribs && lk.attribs.href) {
					if(!goods[key]) {
						goods[key] = {}
					}
					goods[key].url = lk.attribs.href;
					if(lk.children && lk.children[0] && lk.children[0].data) {
						goods[key].name = lk.children[0].data;
					}
				}
			});
			$('#bestselling-top10 .item-price .price').map((key, lk) => {
				if(lk) {
					if(lk.children && lk.children[0] && lk.children[0].data) {
						goods[key].price = lk.children[0].data;
					}
				}
			});
			const urls = [];
			for(let index in goods) {
				let url = 'https://' + goods[index].url.substring(2).split('?')[0];
				urls.push(url);
			}
			callback(null, urls);
		}
	});
}

// For testing on my Centos environment

/*exports.handler(null, null, (err, result) => {
	if(err) {
		return console.log(err);
	}
	console.log(result);
});*/

Again, this works perfectly on my local Windows environment AND a Centos 7 environment on a VPS. Note that my lambda function does have the phantomjs linux executable and NOT the .exe.

On my lambda function I get this:

{
  "errorMessage": "2017-12-03T15:58:01.171Z b6c11df8-d842-11e7-97c8-0bbe0f0854b3 Task timed out after 10.00 seconds"
}

The max time is set for 10 seconds, but this happens with 20 seconds, etc. Not sure if this is related to this library specifically, or if it is a phantomjs exclusive problem. This is my first time working with either so I decided to report this here first.