planecrashinfo_scraping

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/database.htm

There are some big plane crashes recently. I want to know more about the crashes. For very first step, I need to collect data from somewhere, then I found planecrashinfo.com. In this project, I will use Python, BeautifulSoup to collect data from planecrashinfo.com Data format

Format
date:	 Date of accident,  in the format - January 01, 2001
time:	 Local time, in 24 hr. format unless otherwise specified
location: location information
Airline/Op:	 Airline or operator of the aircraft
flight_no:	 Flight number assigned by the aircraft operator
route:	 Complete or partial route flown prior to the accident
ac_type:	 Aircraft type
registration:	 ICAO registration of the aircraft
cn_ln:	 Construction or serial number / Line or fuselage number
aboard:	 Total aboard (passengers / crew)
fatalities:	 Total fatalities aboard (passengers / crew)
ground:	 Total killed on the ground
summary:	 Brief description of the accident and cause if known

f.write("date,time,location,operator,flight_no,route,ac_type,registration,cn_ln,aboard,fatalities,ground,summary\n")

Prerequisites

python 3

Installing

virtualenv -p python3 .myenv

source .myenv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

python scraping.py