NDev-Talks

Source code for my talk on web scraping with Python

Prerequisites:

• Python
• Pip
• Selenium
• Git
• Chromedriver

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Usage:

1. The slides/ folder contains the downloaded presentation from SlideBean. You can view it here.

2. In the src/ folder:

   • index.html is a basic webpage and scrape.py is a Python script that demonstrates scraping it
   • scrape_imdb.py will extract the details of the top 250 movies on IMDb and outputs movie_details_shallow.csv
   • play.py will attempt to solve the popular 2048 game, originally made by Gabriele Cirulli

3. To start a script, run python <SCRIPT_NAME_GOES_HERE_WITHOUT_BRACKETS> in your terminal or command line.

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Feel free to fork, edit and make pull requests!