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It's unclear to me how to actually run this. Only executing the two commands listed under the Installing section does not run it - I had to `cd` into the scraperjs dir, then `npm install`, then continue with the second Install command (`grunt test`) to actually test.

Also, do you install scraperjs into each project directory you want to use it for? Or just install it once?

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Scraperjs is supposed to be used as npm package. So, if you do "npm install <package-name>", you download the latest version of package to the same folder as the closest package.json file (if there's none it will go to your ~/ folder). At that point you can just use with "require('scraperjs')". The test part is a bit more foggy, and I'll add more information to the README in due time. To test you've got to npm-install, with the save-dev flag (npm install --save-dev scraperjs), it will also add the package to your development dependencies, this is so that people that want to use the package won't need to download all scraperjs' development dependencies.

For more information about npm install: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-install.html

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