mattm / celebrity-deaths-scraper

Python script for scraping celebrity death data from USA Today's website, covering the years 2018 to the present. Outputs the data to a CSV file.

Celebrity Deaths Scraper

Overview

This Python script, celebrity_deaths_scraper.py, automates the process of scraping and compiling a list of celebrity deaths from USA Today's website. It fetches data for each year from 2018 to the current year and outputs the results into a CSV file named celebrity_deaths.csv.

This data can then be used to test the knowledge of LLMs.

Installation

To run this script, you will need Python 3 and the following packages:

• requests
• beautifulsoup4
• pandas

You can install these packages using pip:

pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas

Usage

Run the script using Python from the command line:

python celebrity_deaths_scraper.py

After successful execution, the script will create a celebrity_deaths.csv file in the same directory, containing the names, birthdates, and death dates of celebrities.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome! If you have a suggestion for improving the script or have found a bug, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Disclaimer

This script is intended for educational purposes only. Please ensure you have permission to scrape data from websites and adhere to the terms of service of the website.