Scrapethissite.com - Web Scraping Exercises

This repository contains Python scripts of my attempt at web scraping exercises found on Scrapethissite.com.

Exercises:

1. Hockey Teams: Forms, Searching and Pagination: Scrape NHL team stats from a page with pagination and tables.

2. Oscar Winning Films: AJAX and Javascript: Scrape award-winning films information from a page with asynchronous content loading.

3. Countries of the World: A Simple Example: Scrape country information from a single page.

Installation:

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone git@github.com:eliasbnk/web-scraping-sandbox.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd web-scraping-sandbox

3. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment:

   • Windows:

   venv\Scripts\activate

   • Mac/Linux:

   source venv/bin/activate

5. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

Run scripts to complete exercises. For example:

python teams.py

License:

MIT License. See LICENSE.