class web scraper for boone-county-jail detainee information
This web scraper extracts all of the detainees from the boone county jail website and puts them into a SQL database. This includes basic info and all of the charges against them.
Steps to running the web scraper:
- Download/clone the repository
- Delete the boone_county_jail.db
- Go to the directory in your terminal/cmd line
- pip install all of the necessary modules in your directory (not necessary to include any of the Jupyter modules)
- Run the scraper.py (command is python scraper.py)
- Should run correctly and say FINALLY DONE SCRAPING!!!
- The boone_county_jail.db should be updated and in your directory
- Go ahead and open the database in SQLlite