Tahanima / quotes-scraper

Scrapes quotes and the names of their authors from the site - http://quotes.toscrape.com/

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quotes-scraper

This project aims to extract the quotes and the names of their authors from the Quotes to Scrape site.

Tools Used

  • Ruby as the programming language
  • Selenium WebDriver as the mechanism for navigation to web pages and extraction of data

Usage

Prerequisites: installation of Ruby and Bundler

On the project root, run the following commands from your terminal:

  1. bundle install

  2. ruby scraper.rb

A csv file will be generated containing the results. [Note: The project already contains a sample generated csv file. Feel free to delete it prior to running the above commands.]

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Scrapes quotes and the names of their authors from the site - http://quotes.toscrape.com/


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