Get the Price for Gold for 50 Countries

(In Native Currency - USD Conversion Rate Included) Look at Countries.js to view the list of countries

Libraries Used

• node-fetch to fetch the data from the website
• cheerio to parse the data from the website
• express web framework for node.js
• mongoose to connect to the database
• mongodb mongodb database driver for node.js
• date-fns-tz to get the current date and time in a specific timezone
• dotenv to load environment variables from a .env file

Websites Used for Scraping Data

• livepriceofgold
• goldpricez

How to use

• Clone the repository
• Run npm install to install the dependencies
• Run npm start to start the server
• Open localhost:3003 in your browser

How it works

• The server fetches the data from the website
• The data is parsed using cheerio
• The data is sent to the client with the help of express

How to contribute

• The repository is not accepting any contributions at the moment

Endpoints

• / - Home page
• /ping - Check if the server is running
• /api/countries/all - Get all the countries
• /api/countries/code/:country - Get the price for a specific country with the country code
• /api/update/all - Refetch and update the data for all the countries
• /api/update/code/:country - Refetch and update the data for a specific country with the country code

License

MIT