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How to make up to $600 writing an article -- from zero to genius.

Ayobami Ogundiran on November 09, 2021

Have you ever dreamed of making money writing technical articles? How would you feel if I were to tell you that certain publications will pay you u...

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Mark Edosa • Apr 12 '23 • Edited

DOWNLOAD Company name, pricing, and links as a CSV.

Great post bro! I like how you were very consistent in this post making it easy to parse and extract the content with code.

You can organize the companies, pricing, and links in a spreadsheet to keep track of your applications. Here's a code to download the content as a CSV file.

// This function was taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21012580/is-it-possible-to-write-data-to-file-using-only-javascript
// very lazy me :)
var textFile = null,
  makeTextFile = function (text) {
    var data = new Blob([text], {type: 'text/plain'});

    // If we are replacing a previously generated file we need to
    // manually revoke the object URL to avoid memory leaks.
    if (textFile !== null) {
      window.URL.revokeObjectURL(textFile);
    }

    textFile = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);

    // returns a URL you can use as a href
    return textFile;
  };

function download(content) {
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.setAttribute('download', 'file.csv');
    link.href = makeTextFile(content);
    link.click();
}

// initialize csv with heading
let csv = 'Company,Price,Link\n';

// Get all paragraphs after an h3 heading 
let pgs = document.querySelectorAll('h3 + p');

// extract link, company and pricing
function extractDetails(p) {
    let link = p.querySelector('a')?.href;
    let content = p.textContent;
    let company = content.substring(0, content.indexOf('pays')).trim();
    let price = content.split(' ').find(c => c.startsWith('$'));

   // link could be absent sometimes
    if (company && price) {
        return `${company},up to ${price},${link ?? ''}\n`;
    }
    return ''
}

// build csv
pgs.forEach(p => {
    const details = extractDetails(p);
    csv += details;
});

// console.log(csv);
download(csv);

While on this page

open your browser dev tools
go to sources or anywhere you can paste and run the code
well, run it :)

Open the downloaded file.csv in a spreadsheet and add other columns to keep track of your applications.

No need for fun, just give me the CSV file.

I hope this helps.

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Rammina • Nov 9 '21

This was definitely informative! Thank you!

Ayobami Ogundiran • Nov 9 '21

You're welcome...

Liandro Silva • Nov 9 '21

Great post! Tks

Ayobami Ogundiran • Nov 9 '21

Thanks for reaching out...I am glad you like it.

Tulsi Prasad • Nov 26 '21

Awesome insights, learnt something new!

Mohamed Yamani • Nov 9 '21

You really do like the number 6 don't you lol.

Rich post. Thanks!

Ayobami Ogundiran • Nov 9 '21

Yeah! Thanks for the awesome comment.

sevolil6 • Mar 24 '22

Thank you for such wise things. Indeed, when I first started working with writing, I did not know how to make money on my professionalism and then I wrote my thesis and someone bought them, for me it was a shock. Now I write at papersowl.com/write-my-thesis and I am sure that such skills for a professional will always be valued especially in the eophoh of high technology.

Joel Ezema • Aug 29

Damn, I'm five years late