This is a script for scraping data on popular baby names from the Social Security Administration's website (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html). It can be used to get nationwide data on the top 1,000 names for each sex in each year since 1880, and state-by-state data on the top 100 names for each sex in each year since 1960. Requires: Python >= 2.6 Usage ------------------------------ Get national data, sent to standard output in CSV format: $ python babynames.py Get national data, saving it to a file in CSV format: $ python babynames.py -f names.csv Get state-by-state data, for all states $ python babynames.py -s All Get state data for Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, saving it to a file: $ python babynames.py -s VA,PA,MD -f mystates.csv