/vgchartzScrape

Website data scraper for vgchartz.com

Primary LanguagePython

vgchartzScrape

Forked by Prithvi Kinariwala

This fork is updated to use BeautifulSoup4 as well as the new VGChartz.com search structure

vgchartzfull is a python script based on BeautifulSoup. It creates a dataset based on data from http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/ using the search critera:

VGChartz Search Criteria

The dataset is saved as vgsales.csv.

You will need to have BeautifulSoup, numpy, and pandas added. They can be installed by pip in the Command Prompt/Terminal.

C:\Users\Prithvi Kinariwala>py -m pip install beautifulsoup4
C:\Users\Prithvi Kinariwala>py -m pip install numpy
C:\Users\Prithvi Kinariwala>py -m pip install pandas

Thanks to Chris Albon. http://chrisalbon.com/python/beautiful_soup_scrape_table.html