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Simple web scraper that reads all the links to JSON files in JS

I had to get a list of all links on a webpage for a task I was working on. here I am sharing the snippet of code that I used. Let's discuss how to improve it

var tag = document.querySelectorAll("a");
var myarray = []
for (var i = 0; i < tag.length; i++) {
    var nametext = tag[i].textContent;
    var cleantext = nametext.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
    var cleanlink = tag[i].href;
    myarray.push([cleantext, cleanlink]);
};
function generateJson() {
    var hrefArray = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < myarray.length; i++) {
        let t = {}
        t.n = myarray[i][0]; t.m = myarray[i][1];
        hrefArray.push(t);
    };
    var win = window.open("Json");
    win.document.write(JSON.stringify(hrefArray));
}
generateJson()

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Steps

  1. You will need to open the website in your browser to get all links
  2. Go to the console tab in Inspect element
  3. Please paste the above code and press enter. A json file will open in a new window

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  1. How to Run

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  1. Result

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Please let me know your thoughts after reading

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how to download json