/fda-covid-faq-scraper

A basic python web scraper for CDC's COVID-19 FAQ

Primary LanguagePython

FDA COVID-19 FAQ web scraper

This is a basic web scraper for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) frequently asked questions page related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The scraper outputs a CSV file with the questions and answers in separate columns.

Dependencies

  • python
  • pandas
  • requests
  • beautiful soup (bs4)
  • time
  • unicodedata

Enhancements needed

Relative links have not yet been converted to absolute links in the output CSV. The relative links will be broken until the script converts them to absolute links. Fixed 5/1/20