kevingnauh/ca_lottery_archive_scrape

Lottery Data Scraper

This Python application scrapes data from the California Lottery archive website and extracts the winning numbers for the desired lottery game within a specified date range. This app utilizes Selenium for dynamic web scraping and BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML content.

Installation

Install the required packages using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Update path to chromedriver in main.py

Usage

To scrape the winning Powerball numbers for a specific duration (in months), you can use the following command:

python src/main.py --type powerball --months <number_of_months>

Alternatively, you can specify the duration in years using the --years option:

python src/main.py --type powerball --years <number_of_years>

Help

To view the available options and usage information, you can use the --help option:

python src/main.py --help

Additional

Run the following script to combine the monthly json files into 1 file for analysis.

python src/combine_json.py

Run the following to specify a name for the output file using the --outname option.

python src/combine_json.py --outname <output_file_name>