rgbj/scraping-challenge-workshop

Scraping workshop

Where are the challenges ?

The challenges are here.

All data are from the Titanic disaster (it reminds you Kaggle ?)

How to complete the challenge ?

Step 0: Fill prerequisite

Scrapy works only with Python 2.7.

Please install Python 2.7, and not Python 3.x!

Step 1: Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/fabienvauchelles/scraping-challenge-workshop.git
cd scraping-challenge-workshop

Step 2: Install all Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3: Edit your scraper to complete the challenge

Scraper code is inside the file myscraper/spiders/myscraper.py.

Items are inside the file myscraper/items.py.

Step 4: Start the scraper

cd scraping-challenge-workshop
scrapy crawl myscraper -t jsonlines -o persons.json

Exports items are inside the file persons.json.

Licence

See the Licence.