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  • Command line cheatsheet steps (setup for Node.js project)
  • Set up a .gitignore with the memes folder
  • Create a folder called "memes"
  • Access the website (send a request to the website / "fetching")
  • use the second library go to html parser
  • Search for the section in the string of HTML that comes back (in the "response") from the website
  • Search for the first 10 image sources in the section Two options
  • One option: .jpg - this is in the HTML code of the website
  • Another option: <img
  • Get the src URL strings from the img
  • Add the first 10 image URL strings to an array
  • Loop over the first 10 image URLs and:
  • Create a file (named correctly) in the memes folder (eg. 01.jpg, 02.jpg, etc)
  • Access the image URL
  • In this file, store the image data that comes back (in the "response") from the website
  • Test to make sure the program can run multiple times without failing create the array

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