Downloading a Webpage Using Node.js

This simple Node.js script can be a helpful tool for accessing the contents and data from any webpage.

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed on your computer. You can verify node is installed by running node -v in your terminal. At the time of writing, the active LTS release is v16.15.1
• NPM installed on your computer. This should come as part of the Node.js installation. You can verify npm is installed by running npm -v in your terminal. At the time of writing, the latest version is 8.11.0.

Step 1: Set up folder for the Node script

Using your terminal or file explorer create a new folder for the project. For this tutorial I’ll call the folder html-fetch.

Using terminal, this can be accomplished by using the cd command to navigate to the folder where we want to create the project, then running mkdir html-fetch to create the folder.

Step 2: Initialize the project

In terminal, navigate into the newly created folder by running cd html-fetch.

Run npm init --yes to initialize the package. The --yes option will skip the questionnaire and give us the default configuration.

This should output the contents of the package.json file in your terminal and create a package.json file in the folder.

{
  "name": "html-fetch",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test"…