McD's Locator Scraper

This tool helps scrape store details from McDonald's website based on store numbers provided in a CSV file.

Preparing Input Data

Before you start, follow these steps:

1. Visit this Google Spreadsheet.
2. Download the spreadsheet data.
3. Save the downloaded data as input.csv in the data directory of this project.

Running the Scraper

Run the scraper with the usual command:

yarn start

Output

After successfully running the scraper, you'll find the results in data/output.csv.

Using a Remote Browser with Bright Data

If you want to use a remote browser via Bright Data for your scraping tasks, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Visit Bright Data and create an account.

2. Once your account is set up, add a scraping browser.

3. Navigate to the Access parameters tab in your Bright Data account.

4. Grab the following details:

   • BRIGHT_DATA_USERNAME
   • BRIGHT_DATA_PASSWORD
   • BRIGHT_DATA_HOST

5. Place these details in your .env file in the root of this project.

For a more detailed guide, you can watch this video.

Note: You don't need to do this if you don't want to use a remote browser. Also, be aware that using Bright Data will incur additional costs.

Happy scraping!