added save to directory

README.md

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Commands:
 Options:
   --help, -h      help                                                 [boolean]
   --version       Show version number                                  [boolean]
+  --path, -p      Location for saving the results        [string] [default: "."]
   --async, -a     Number of async tasks                  [string] [default: "5"]
   --keyword, -k   Amazon search keyword ex. 'Xbox one'    [string] [default: ""]
   --number, -n    Number of products to scrape. Maximum 100 products or 300
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ Examples:
   amazon-buddy asin B01GW3H3U8
   amazon-buddy categories
   amazon-buddy countries
+  amazon-buddy --country "DE" asin B0039N480I --path ~/results --filetype all 
 ```
 
 #### Example 1

bin/cli.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
-
+const fs = require("fs")
 const AmazonScraper = require('../lib');
 
 const startScraper = async (argv) => {
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ require('yargs')
             alias: 'h',
             describe: 'help',
         },
+        path: {
+            alias: 'p',
+            default: '.',
+            type: 'string',
+            describe: 'Location for saving the results',
+        },
         async: {
             alias: 'a',
             default: '5',
@@ -163,6 +169,14 @@ require('yargs')
             }
         }
 
+        // checking the path
+        if (argv.path){
+            const pathToDir = argv.path
+
+            // check if the path is valid to write
+            fs.accessSync(pathToDir, fs.constants.W_OK);
+        }
+
         // Minimum allowed rating is 1
         if (!argv['min-rating']) {
             argv['min-rating'] = 1;

lib/Amazon.js

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const spinner = ora('Amazon Scraper Started');
 const { Parser } = require('json2csv');
 const moment = require('moment');
 const { SocksProxyAgent } = require('socks-proxy-agent');
+const path = require("path")
 
 const CONST = require('./constant');
 
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ class AmazonScraper {
         asyncTasks,
         reviewFilter,
         referer,
+        path
     }) {
         this.asyncTasks = asyncTasks;
         this.asyncPage = 1;
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ class AmazonScraper {
         this.initTime = Date.now();
         this.ua = ua || 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.113 Safari/537.36';
         this.reviewFilter = reviewFilter;
+        this.path = path;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -236,13 +239,13 @@ class AmazonScraper {
 
         this.sortAndFilterResult();
 
-        await this.saveResultToFile();
+        await this.saveResultToFile(this.path);
 
         if (this.cli) {
             spinner.stop();
         }
         if (this.fileType && this.cli) {
-            console.log(`Result was saved to: ${this.fileName}`);
+            console.log(`Results were saved to: ${path.resolve(this.path)}`);
         }
         return {
             ...(this.scrapeType === 'products' ? { totalProducts: this.totalProducts, category: this.productSearchCategory } : {}),
@@ -305,19 +308,20 @@ class AmazonScraper {
     /**
      * Save results to the file
      */
-    async saveResultToFile() {
+    async saveResultToFile(savePath) {
         if (this.collector.length) {
+            const baseFilePath = path.join(savePath, `${this.fileName}`)
             switch (this.fileType) {
                 case 'json':
-                    await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${this.fileName}.json`, JSON.stringify(this.collector), cb));
+                    await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${baseFilePath}.json`, JSON.stringify(this.collector), cb));
                     break;
                 case 'csv':
-                    await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${this.fileName}.csv`, this.jsonToCsv.parse(this.collector), cb));
+                    await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${baseFilePath}.csv`, this.jsonToCsv.parse(this.collector), cb));
                     break;
                 case 'all':
                     await Promise.all([
-                        await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${this.fileName}.json`, JSON.stringify(this.collector), cb)),
-                        await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${this.fileName}.csv`, this.jsonToCsv.parse(this.collector), cb)),
+                        await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${baseFilePath}.json`, JSON.stringify(this.collector), cb)),
+                        await fromCallback((cb) => writeFile(`${baseFilePath}.csv`, this.jsonToCsv.parse(this.collector), cb)),
                     ]);
                     break;
                 default: