How to Scrape Election Data with Node and Cheerio

Intro

Since we are closing in on November 3, we decided to do a few projects themed around elections. In our first project, we wanted to scrape a webpage to find upcoming election dates. Let's get started in the video below.

Video

Resources

• https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/state-abbreviations
• https://www.usvotefoundation.org/vote/state-elections/state-election-dates-deadlines.htm?stateName=CO
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/951021/what-is-the-javascript-version-of-sleep
• https://github.com/request/request-promise
• https://cheerio.js.org/
• https://github.com/KoalaTeaCode/election-dates
• https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-JavaScript-Turning-Code-Into/dp/1491964928