a small query web showcase with unscramble.me

webscraping/anagram_unscramble_scrape

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+#!/usr/bin/env nu
+# script to get anagrams with scrabble points from unscramble.me
+# NOTE: this is just a small show case of piping query web stuff
+def main [...words: string] {
+ let base = "https://www.unscramble.me/"
+ $words | par-each {
+ |word|
+ http get ($base + $word)
+ |query web -q ".mBottom-6" -m # gets the anagram table part of the page
+ |drop nth 0 # remove the description/definition of "words"
+ |first # we only care about the biggest/first anagrams (which is the length of the input word)
+ |query web -q "table" -m # get the html table
+ |to text # we need it as raw html to parse it
+ |query web --as-table ["Word" "Scrabble points" "Words with friends points"] # parse the html table as table
+ }
+}