A JS Web scraper that extracts species names from https://www.iucnredlist.org/search into a comma-separated text file.

The remote resource iucnredlist.org currently does not support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which you can read more about here and here so be sure to use a web browser that allows CORS.

For development purposes, the recommended browser to use is the Google Chrome web browser with --disable-security-flags. See instructions below on how to disable Chrome security for windows.

Host this project folder and/or its contents on an http web server.

1. Enter a starting (From) and ending (To) page range indices on which to scrape data. Maximum page is currently set to 35.

2. Press the Scrape button to start fetching data. Press the Stop button anytime to stop.

3. Once the scraping process has finished stopping, press the Download button to download the species names list in a comma-separated text file.

4. Press the Reset button to restart.

Type the following in a windows commandline:

rem rem stands for remark/comments
rem Kill all chrome process
taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe
start chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir

Once chrome has been re-started with disable flags, it will always run with disabled security unless you re-start it again in a normal manner. It is dangerous to continue using Chrome with disabled security, so be sure to reset it to its original settings.

Type the following in the windows command line:

rem rem stands for remark/comments
rem Kill all chrome process
taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe

Then you can start using chrome normally again.