# emadehsan/thal

Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping

Repository: https://github.com/emadehsan/thal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thal
Homepage: https://emadehsan.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: puppeteer, chrome-headless, nodejs, scraping, mongoose, mongodb
Last push: 2020-10-28T11:22:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3296, "days_push": 2135, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2360, forks 203 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:40.871951+00:00)

## What it is
A starter guide and example code repository for web scraping using Puppeteer and Chrome Headless in Node.js. It accompanies a Medium article and demonstrates scraping GitHub, logging in, and saving extracted user emails to MongoDB.

## Use cases
- learn how to scrape websites with puppeteer
- getting started with chrome headless scraping
- example of logging into a site and extracting data with node
- scrape pages and save results to mongodb
- take screenshots of web pages programmatically
- replace phantomjs-based scraping with puppeteer

## When to choose
- you are learning Puppeteer and headless Chrome scraping from a worked example
- you want a minimal Node.js scraping starter with MongoDB persistence

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade, maintained scraping framework
- you need scraping features beyond the tutorial's basic login-and-extract flow
- you don't use Node.js or MongoDB

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: crawlers, web-development, tutorials, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: puppeteer, chrome-headless, tutorial, example-code, mongodb, mongoose, nodejs

## Member repositories
- emadehsan/thal (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.871951+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 2026-08-30T02:36:08.134610+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/emadehsan/thal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.871951+00:00, sha ae8ef495dd61)
  - homepage: https://emadehsan.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:04.762669+00:00, sha 83e37554b8c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.