Web Scraping Scraping is a process by which you can ... - Cindy Royal

Python is space sensitive, so you have to indent things properly. If you getany error messages in the console, read them. They will help youtroubleshoot any problems.A New ExampleNow, let’s try this with some other data. We will reuse the data from thisscraper. On your scraper profile, choose Copy. This is also known as forking.This will create an exact copy of the code in a new scraper. You should clickon the Edit pencil next to the name to give it a new name. Call this one“music.”• Let’s go to the Texas Music Office Site.http://governor.state.tx.us/music/musicians/talent/talent• The first page lists all the A musicians.• First, replace the url in the second line of the scraper.• Now, take a look at the code. View Source. Try to find where the databegins. How can we identify this area?• I found that both of these worked to identify the root.cssselect:• "div[style='text-align: center'] tr"• “table tr”• The tds will be the same. We are looking for table cell data.• The if statement should be changed to the number of columns for thistable.• Adjust the data items you are pulling out. You can modify the integerconversion, if your info is all text.• Modify the save command with the name for your datas uniqueidentifier.• Make sure the scraper is saved. You should be able to go back to theScraper profile page and Download the csv.There are ways to have the scraper start again and do the next page in thesequence. You would set up a loop and identify the pattern. We aren’t goingto do this in class, but it is possible.