Most Popular Names In Philippines Scraper
This repository contains a Python web scraper that extracts data from the "https://forebears.io/philippines/forenames" website. The scraper utilizes the Beautiful Soup library to parse the HTML content and extract relevant information about popular names in the Philippines. The output of the scraper is a CSV file containing the scraped data.
Content
The dataset includes the following fields:
rank: The position of the name when graded by incidence with all other names in the place.forename: The personal name given to an individual at or shortly after birth, also known as a first name.incidence: Number of people who bear the name.frequency: Ratio and percentage of people who bear the name.gender: The gender of the specific name based on the percentage.gender_percentage: The percentage of bearers who are male or female.
Usage
To use the scraper with Conda and Jupyter Notebook, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository to your local machine.
- Create a new Conda environment.
- Activate the Conda environment.
- Launch Jupyter Notebook.
- Open the
names_scraper.ipynbnotebook in Jupyter Notebook. - Run the cells in the notebook to execute the scraper and generate the CSV file.
- Once the scraper completes, the scraped data will be saved as a CSV file.
Feel free to modify the scraper script or customize it according to your specific needs.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.