# dinubs/jam-api

Parse web pages using CSS query selectors

Repository: https://github.com/dinubs/jam-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jam-api
Homepage: http://www.jamapi.xyz
Language: HTML
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: json, api, css, javascript, nodejs
Last push: 2019-05-13T17:03:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3878, "days_push": 2669, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1363, forks 57 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:30.468852+00:00)

## What it is
Jam API is a hosted service (self-hostable Node.js app) that turns any website into a JSON API by extracting data using CSS query selectors. You POST a URL plus a JSON schema describing selectors, and it returns structured JSON of the matched page content.

## Use cases
- scrape a webpage and get JSON back
- turn any site into a JSON api using css selectors
- extract titles, images, and links from html pages
- parse web pages with css selectors without writing a scraper
- pull structured data from websites via a post request

## When to choose
- you want quick selector-based extraction from web pages without building a scraper
- you need a simple HTTP endpoint that converts HTML to JSON

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained or supported tool (project is abandoned; use CoolQLCool instead)
- you need JavaScript rendering of dynamic pages or robust anti-bot handling
- you need large-scale or high-volume scraping

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, parser, http-server, api-framework
- domain: web-development, crawlers, apis, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: css-selectors, html-to-, scraping-api, discontinued, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- dinubs/jam-api (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.468852+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:24.891888+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dinubs/jam-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.468852+00:00, sha 1483d8b5e283)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.