Scrape Assistant

Description

Scans web pages for text data using user defined regular expressions. The found data is sent to a custom web service which can be used to store the datasets in a database.
To work with the extension the service MUST provide two REST-based request handler.

1. [GET] pattern
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... MUST RETURN a map of pattern in JSON format.

Example reponse:
{
"email": "[a-z0-9\\.\\-+_]+@[a-z0-9\\.\\-+_]+\\.[a-z]+",
"phone": "\\s\\+[0-9\\s]+"
}


2. [POST] check
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... MUST ACCEPT an array of items:

Example:
[{
"id": "AD8F456AWED46",
"type": "email",
"data": "[email protected]"
},
{
"id": "IONS32NK212KK",
"type": "phone",
"data": "+40481588461"
}]

... MUST RETURN an array of items reflecting how the received data should be marked on the webpage using the following color scheme:

- transparent... Not to be colored (invalid)
- red... Check failed
- green... Entry exists in the database
- yellow... Entry does not exist in database


Example:
[{
"id": "AD8F456AWED46",
"color":"green"
},
{
"id": "IONS32NK212KK",
"color":"red"
}]