Node.JS scrape encoding?

Question

I\'m fetching this page with with this request library in Node.JS, and parsing the body using cheerio.

Calling $.html() on the parsed response body reve

Answer 1

The page appears to be encoded with iso-8859-1. You'll need to tell request to hand you back an un-encoded buffer by passing encoding: null and use something like node-iconv to convert it.

If you're writing a generalized crawler, you'll have to figure out how to detect the encoding of each page you encounter to decode it correctly, otherwise the following should work for your case:

var request = require('request');                                               
var iconv = require('iconv');                                                   

request.get({                                                                   
  url: 'http://www.relaisentrecote.fr',                                         
  encoding: null,                                                               
}, function(err, res, body) {                                                   
  var ic = new iconv.Iconv('iso-8859-1', 'utf-8');                              
  var buf = ic.convert(body);                                                   
  var utf8String = buf.toString('utf-8');  
  // .. do something with utf8String ..                                                                             
});