palewire/first-web-scraper

showmeboone.com is frequently inaccessible.

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I would suggest a different website/URL for demonstrating web scraping. Possibly, will write one by this weekend where the website is hosted on one of my server allowing for web scraping without breaking any laws/Terms of use.

One thing I'd like to see in a replacement is pagination of the target data table, so that we could add another step at the end of the lesson that takes it beyond just scraping a simple table.

It is a natural next step in learning how to scrape and I think it would more clearly demonstrate the power of learning this skill, since many software tools that don't require programming can pull a table pretty easily, but might struggle with pagination.

Valid point. Perhaps demonstrating both in the document should help the user in understanding the usefulness. I'll work on this accordingly.

showmeboone.com is frequently inaccessible

Can I suggest self-hosting the example in this repo (and using rawgit.com or github pages to serve it).

This is now a different URL