/Web-Scraping-Application

Web scraping to extract data from a website and stores it in a structured format. This project aims to assess your proficiency in web scraping techniques, data handling, error management.

Primary LanguagePython

Web Scraping Application

Description:

Web scraping to extract data from a website and stores it in a structured format. This project aims to assess your proficiency in web scraping techniques, data handling, error management.

Technologies Used:

  • bs4 / BeautifulSoup: Beautiful Soup is a Python library used for web scraping purposes. It provides tools for parsing HTML and XML documents and extracting useful information from them.

  • requests: The requests library in Python is a powerful and user-friendly tool for making HTTP requests.

Usage:

  1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
     git clone https://github.com/HackerajOfficial/Web-Scraping-Application.git
    
  2. Active environment
      venv\Scripts\activate
    
  3. Install the necessary dependencies
      pip install -r requirements.txt
    
  4. Start the Django development server:
      python scraper.py
    

Limitations:

  • Website Changes: Web scraping relies on the structure of the website being consistent over time. If the website's structure changes, such as class names or HTML layout, the scraping code may break.