/wta-scraper

A web scraper used to access all the hike data from Washington Trails Association (WTA).

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Washington Trails Association Web Scraper

Description

A Washington Trail Association (WTA) web scraper, that gathers all relevant information for hikes listed on, and under, this sub-domain: wta.org/go-outside/hikes. All hike data is returned and formatted in a CSV file. Keep in mind that this scraper relies on HTML code published on domains own by WTA. Thus, any changes made to their code can cause this web scraper to fail.

Getting Started

To view the hikes this web scraper extracts data from, visit WTA's Hiking Guide.

To get started, simply run the WTA_Hike_Scraper.py file.

user@machine:~/wta-scraper$ python3 WTA_Hike_Scraper.py

Visualizations

To view a simple visual representation of the returned data, please visit WTA Hike Data Dashboard.

Contact

For support, feedback or, to report a bug, you may contact the maintainer:

License

Distributed under the MIT License.