cron, email sender, pm2 daemon manager added

Author: keithhetrick

README.md

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Web Scrapers built using:
 - [Express](https://expressjs.com/)
 - [Cheerio](https://cheerio.js.org/)
 - [Axios](https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios)
+- [Dotenv](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv)
+- [File System (fs)](https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html)
+- [Path](https://nodejs.org/api/path.html)
+- [PM2 Process Management (daemon process manager)](https://pm2.keymetrics.io/)
 - [Node-Fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch)
 - [Unirest](https://www.npmjs.com/package/unirest)
 - [Got-Scraping](https://www.npmjs.com/package/got-scraping)
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ Web Scrapers built using:
 
 ### **Google Jobs Scraper _(Node.js, Cheerio, Unirest, PDFKit)_**
 
-- _Scrapes Google for the latest jobs in an area, and converts the scraped data into a PDF file in a local folder._
+- _Running as a background app via [PM2 (Process Management)](https://pm2.keymetrics.io/), Job scrapers scrapes Google for the latest jobs in an specific area, converts the scraped data into a PDF file, saves to a local folder, & uploaded/sent as an email via custom-made [Email Sender App](https://github.com/keithhetrick/nodemailer-project)._
 
 ### **Google Images Scraper _(Node.js, Cheerio, Unirest)_**
 

googleWebScrapers/googleJobScraper/.env

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+LOCAL_PATH="/Users/keithhetrick/Desktop/VS-Code-Projects/web-scraper-test-2"

googleWebScrapers/googleJobScraper/googleJobScraper.js

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
+require("dotenv").config();
+
 const cheerio = require("cheerio");
 const unirest = require("unirest");
+const cron = require("node-cron");
 const fs = require("fs");
 const PDFDocument = require("pdfkit");
 
+const LOCAL_PATH = process.env.LOCAL_PATH;
+
 const getJobsData = async () => {
   try {
     const url =
@@ -53,12 +58,10 @@ const getJobsData = async () => {
     // create PDF file
     const doc = new PDFDocument();
 
-    const file_Name = "dailyJobScraper.pdf";
-    const file_Path = "../../../web-scraper-test-2/";
-
-    // path.resolve('joe.txt'); // '/Users/joe/joe.txt' if run from my home folder
+    const file_Name = `dailyJobScraper-${new Date().getTime()}.pdf`;
+    const file_Path = LOCAL_PATH;
 
-    // clean file name to elimiate colons, spaces & commas in the file name
+    // sanitize file name
     const full_FileName = (file_Path + file_Name)
       .replace(/:/g, "-")
       .replace(/,/g, "-")
@@ -102,8 +105,20 @@ const getJobsData = async () => {
     });
 
     doc.end();
+    console.log(
+      "\nPDF file created successfully! Saved to designated path for emailer app.\n"
+    );
   } catch (e) {
     console.log("ERROR:", e);
   }
 };
 getJobsData();
+
+// ======================================================== \\
+// ================== CRON SCHEDULER ====================== ||
+// ======================================================== //
+
+cron.schedule("0 8 * * *", getJobsData, {
+  scheduled: true,
+  timezone: "America/Chicago",
+});