🕷️ Python Web Scraper

Python-based web scraping tool with ethical data collection practices. Features rate limiting, robots.txt compliance, and data validation.

Professional web scraping solution for automated data collection with enterprise-grade reliability and ethical practices.

✨ Key Features

🎯 Data Collection

• Multi-source Scraping: Google Maps reviews and business data
• Employment Focus: Intelligent detection of employment-related reviews
• Rate Limiting: Respectful API usage with built-in delays
• Error Handling: Robust error recovery and retry mechanisms

🤖 Automation & Reliability

• GitHub Actions: Automated daily runs at midnight UTC
• Scheduled Execution: Consistent data collection without manual intervention
• Duplicate Prevention: Smart detection and filtering of duplicate entries
• Data Validation: Quality checks and data integrity verification

📊 Data Processing

• CSV Export: Clean, structured output for analysis
• Employment Scoring: Relevance scoring for employment-related content
• Data Enrichment: Additional metadata and categorization
• Analytics Ready: Formatted for immediate use in data analysis tools

🔒 Ethical Practices

• Robots.txt Compliance: Respects website scraping policies
• Rate Limiting: Prevents server overload with controlled request timing
• Data Privacy: Responsible handling of collected information
• Legal Compliance: Adheres to web scraping best practices

Setup 🛠️

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add your Google Maps API key to GitHub Secrets as GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY

Usage 🚀

The scraper runs automatically every day at midnight UTC via GitHub Actions. You can also trigger it manually from the Actions tab.

Manual Run

python test_scraper.py

Output 📊

Reviews are saved to company_reviews_new.csv with the following information:

• Company name
• Industry
• Rating
• Pros/Cons
• Position
• Timestamp

Contributing 🤝

Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests!