Below are a few exercises to help practice web scraping.
- Texas Executed Offenders - Scrape the list of offender data and save it to a CSV. Bonus points: Scrape the final statement for each offender.
- Stanford Events - Scrape the event url and metadata.
- Palo Alto Agendas/Minutes - Generate a CSV of links to all agendas for current year. Bonus points: Scrape additional years and actually download the files.
- FDIC banks list - Generate a CSV containing all the bank data on the index page. Bonus points: Scrape two pieces of data from the balance sheet pages for each bank.