A year ago, web scraping was still a foreign concept to me. How could I possibly automate logging into a site, navigating to a target, and extracting the required data, especially if the site relied on JavaScript for key parts of the interaction or DOM manipulation??? Fortunately, Nightmare, a simple, straightforward Node.js wrapper around PhantomJS, takes all of the horror out of this. This post will cover how to get started with Nightmare and some tricks to get some real mileage out of it.