It's Officially Legal so Let's Scrape the Web
summary
Claims recent case law lets scraping publicly available pages (Haikyu Labs v LinkedIn fall 2019) and shows legal risk is reduced; demonstrates concrete tooling and results: requests and BeautifulSoup for HTML, Selenium for dynamic pages, dateutil/regex/pandas for cleaning, and pickle for saving. Builds functions and a pipeline that scrapes Wikipedia state pages (name, lat/long, admitted date, population, area, median income), runs it for ten states with a one-second pause between requests, handles missing fields with try/except, and writes a CSV; Kansas admission date is missing.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 3:17Why learn web scraping?
- 4:19How does it work?
- 5:55Is it even legal?
- 21:24Decipher basic HTML
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