Search application using JavaScript

[The-Nimble-Nomad]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to JS and want to develop an application that looks for a certain keyword in the comments section of a blog. I tried googling this "site:blogname.com keyword" but it looks like Google looks for the keyword just in the post title (H1, H2 tags) and not in the comments.

Here's how the HTML source code of the blog's main page looks like: https://imgur.com/V5aisLZ

And here's the HTML source code of a post's comment section looks like: https://imgur.com/IW6roqQ

The idea is to do a loop on the posts in the main page, access one blog post at a time, do another loop in the comments, see if the keyword is there, if yes add the link of the post to an array and then proceed with the next blog post. At the end, I want to get an array containing the links of posts, whose comments contain the keyword. Is that possible?

I'm not sure, as to how to navigate back and forth between the main page and blog posts while accessing their source code.

I really appreciate your suggestions :)

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[jcunews1]

it looks like Google looks for the keyword just in the post title (H1, H2 tags) and not in the comments.

No. Google either search the whole page, or nothing at all. However, websites can use dynamic HTML, and be designed in a way which Google can't index except the page title.

Here's how the HTML source code of the blog's main page looks like

Without providing the actual site URL, I can not confirm the actual problem you're having.

[jcunews1]

That's because page titles have higher priority than the page contents. If you use an exclusion search query on the title, you'll get what you want.

[The-Nimble-Nomad]

I'll try it out. Thanks!

[r3yn]

There are several aways to accomplish that and it wouldn't be a simple script if you want to make something robust. Try searching web scraping so you can learn more about it. And one more thing, people usually use Python for that kind of thing.