blinkist-scraper-docker

Docker-Compose setup for use with blinkist-scraper.
This will run a Linux desktop inside a docker container with an VNC web-interface.
Using this method saves a bit of headache running selenium and chrome inside a docker container.

Requirements

• Linux + Docker
  or
• Windows + WSL2 + Docker Desktop for Windows

Instructions

1. git clone https://github.com/johndoe-dev00/blinkist-scraper-docker.git to your desired location
2. docker-compose build will load the desktop container and install the requirements for blinkist-scraper
3. ./clone.sh will clone the blinkist-scraper repo to "./code"
4. docker-compose up -d will start the Docker container.
5. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:8089 in order to open the VNC web-interface
6. In the web-interface open the terminal and run cd /code
7. You can now run python blinkistscraper --help from here
8. Output from the scraper will later be saved to the subfolders "./books" and "./dump" on the docker host