/council_tax

Code to web scrape the Valuation Office Agency website to collect council tax data

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Collecting council tax data

Overview

This code collects council tax data for properties from a list of postcodes. The data comes from the Valuation Office Agency website.

How do I use this project?

The following Python packages are required:

  • requests
  • bs4
  • selenium
  • time
  • pandas

In addition, the code requires:

  • ChromeDriver to be downloaded and for the ChromeDriver file path to be specified in the code as this is required for selenium to drive Chrome
  • A list of postcodes saved in a file called "My_postcodes.csv" with the column name "pcds". It is not included here as it may narrow down my location. A list of postcodes can be found on the Open Geography Portal