README.md

Books to Scrape Web Scraper

This project contains a web scraper that extracts data from the website Books to Scrape. The scraper gathers information about books, including titles, prices, availability, ratings, and thumbnails, and saves the data in a CSV file. Thumbnails are also downloaded and saved locally.

Features

• Scrapes book details including title, price, availability, rating, and thumbnail URL.
• Downloads and saves thumbnail images locally.
• Saves extracted data to a CSV file in a structured format.
• Processes the first 10 pages of the website.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• BeautifulSoup 4.9.3+
• pandas 1.2.0+
• requests 2.25.1+

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/books-to-scrape-web-scraper.git
   cd books-to-scrape-web-scraper

2. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows, use `venv\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. Run the scraper script:

   python scrape_books.py

2. The script will extract data from the first 10 pages of the website, save the data to a CSV file located in the data_sheet directory, and download thumbnails to the images directory.

Output

• data_sheet/books_data.csv: Contains the scraped book details.
• images/: Contains the downloaded thumbnail images.

Video

For a detailed tutorial on how to use this script, please refer to the Books to Scrape 📚.

Directory Structure

To help organize your project, here's a suggested directory structure:

books-to-scrape-web-scraper/
├── data_sheet/
│   └── books_data.csv
├── images/
│   └── (thumbnails)
├── scrape_books.py
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

flowchart TD
    A([Start]) --> B[Initialize base URLs and create directories]
    B --> C{Loop through pages 1 to 10}
    C --> D[Request page content]
    D --> E[Parse HTML content]
    E --> F[Extract book details]
    F --> G[Save book thumbnail]
    G --> H[Append details to the list]
    H --> I[Save data to CSV file]
    I --> J([End])
    style A fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style B fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style C fill:#ff9,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style D fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style E fill:#ff9,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style F fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style G fill:#ff9,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style H fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style I fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style J fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px

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