This assignment builds a web application that scrapes various websites for data related to the Mission to Mars and displays the information in a single HTML page
Back end searching
- Converted Jupyter notebook into a Python script called scrape_mars.py with a function called scrape that executes all of the scraping code returns one Python dictionary containing all of the scraped data.
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Created a route called /scrape that imports the scrape_mars.py script and calls the scrape function, storing the return value in Mongo as a Python dictionary.
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Created a root route / that queries the Mongo database and passes the mars data into an HTML template to display the data.
- Created a template HTML file called index.html that takes the mars data dictionary and displays all of the data in the appropriate HTML elements.
This resulted in a page that looks like the images below:
