DEX8-SDK is free and open source library which helps developers to build complex automation scripts so called DEX8 Tasks. The code is on the Github: https://github.com/smikodanic/dex8-sdk .

The library is divided into two parts:
   1. CLI - Command Line Interface (use commands from the OS terminal)
   2. Helpers - a set of helper libraries which makes the DEX8 task creation easier

Content

• CLI - Command Line Interface

  - initiate, delete, start, upload and download tasks from command line

• Helpers

  - a collection of rich helper libraries
  
  1. Echo - a library for sending messages to web panel or log it to console
  2. FunctionFlow - a library for controlling the execution flow of JS functions
  3. HttpClient - a HTTP/HTTPS Client with promises and 301 redirection
  4. Mongo - methods to save, list, update, delete MongoDB documents
  5. Rand - generate stohastic numbers, shuffle array elements, ...etc
  6. RobotsTxt - fetch and parse the robots.txt file
  7. CSV - parse (rad & write) the CSV files

Quickstart

1. Installation

$ npm install -g dex8-sdk
Now you can use DEX8-SDK CLI commands.

2. Start a new project (task)

$ dex8 init <taskName> - creates the minimum files needed for task development
$ cd <taskName>

3. Develop task

Uses DEX8-SDK helpers to develop crawler, spider, scraper, data extraction or any automation tool.

4. Test a task

$ dex8 start -i input.js -s - test task on your localhost (local computer)

5. Login to Web Panel

$ dex8 login - login with the same username and password which you use to login into Web Panel

6. Upload a task

If everything is ok with your task upload it to Web Panel:
$ dex8 upload