LAB - Class 17

Project: Web Scraper

Project Description

The back-end app uses requests and Beautiful Soup library scrape a Wikepedia page and record which passages need citations. The web scraper reports the number of citations needed and the relevant passage text.

Author: Rhett Chase

Links and Resources

• chatGPT
• Beautiful Soup

Setup

• pip install -r requirements.txt

Alternatively:

• pip install requests
• pip install beautifulsoup4

.env requirements (where applicable)

• N/A

How to initialize/run your application (where applicable)

python3 -m web_scraper.scraper

How to use your library (where applicable)

• N/A

Tests

• N/A