I am trying to figure out how to run in parallel (in this case 10) async function based on a stream of parsing datas from a website using lapwinglabs/x-ray webscraper.
let pauser = new Rx.Subject()
let count = 0
let max = 10
// function that parse a single url to retrieve data
// return Observable
let parsing_each_link = url => {
return Rx.Observable.create(
observer => {
xray(url, selector)((err, data) => {
if (err) observer.onError(err)
observer.onNext(data)
observer.onCompleted()
})
})
}
// retrieve all the urls from a main page => node stream
let streamNode = xray(main_url, selector)
.paginate(some_selector)
.write()
.pipe(JSONStream.parse('*'))
// convert node stream to RxJS
let streamRx = RxNode.fromStream(streamNode)
.do(() => {
if (count === max) {
pauser.onNext(true)
count = 0
}
})
.do(() => count++)
.buffer(pauser) // take only 10 url by 10 url
streamRx.subscribe(
ten_urls => {
Rx.Observable.forkJoin(
ten_urls.map(url => parsing_each_link(url))
)
.subscribe(
x => console.log("Next : ", JSON.stringify(x, null, 4))
)
}
)
Next on the last console.log is never called ?!?
Impossible to say for sure, but if you can make sure that ten_urls
are emitted as expected, then the next step is to make sure that the observable parsing_each_link
does complete, as forkJoin
will wait for the last value of each of its source observables.
I could not see any call to observer.onComplete
in your code.