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Full Python code for web scraping Kanview utilizing Selenium, Beautiful Soup, and pandas
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from selenium import webdriver | |
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
import re | |
import pandas as pd | |
from tabulate import tabulate | |
import os | |
#launch url | |
url = "http://kanview.ks.gov/PayRates/PayRates_Agency.aspx" | |
# create a new Firefox session | |
driver = webdriver.Firefox() | |
driver.implicitly_wait(30) | |
driver.get(url) | |
#After opening the url above, Selenium clicks the specific agency link | |
python_button = driver.find_element_by_id('MainContent_uxLevel1_Agencies_uxAgencyBtn_33') #FHSU | |
python_button.click() #click fhsu link | |
#Selenium hands the page source to Beautiful Soup | |
soup_level1=BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'lxml') | |
datalist = [] #empty list | |
x = 0 #counter | |
#Beautiful Soup finds all Job Title links on the agency page and the loop begins | |
for link in soup_level1.find_all('a', id=re.compile("^MainContent_uxLevel2_JobTitles_uxJobTitleBtn_")): | |
#Selenium visits each Job Title page | |
python_button = driver.find_element_by_id('MainContent_uxLevel2_JobTitles_uxJobTitleBtn_' + str(x)) | |
python_button.click() #click link | |
#Selenium hands of the source of the specific job page to Beautiful Soup | |
soup_level2=BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'lxml') | |
#Beautiful Soup grabs the HTML table on the page | |
table = soup_level2.find_all('table')[0] | |
#Giving the HTML table to pandas to put in a dataframe object | |
df = pd.read_html(str(table),header=0) | |
#Store the dataframe in a list | |
datalist.append(df[0]) | |
#Ask Selenium to click the back button | |
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)") | |
#increment the counter variable before starting the loop over | |
x += 1 | |
#end loop block | |
#loop has completed | |
#end the Selenium browser session | |
driver.quit() | |
#combine all pandas dataframes in the list into one big dataframe | |
result = pd.concat([pd.DataFrame(datalist[i]) for i in range(len(datalist))],ignore_index=True) | |
#convert the pandas dataframe to JSON | |
json_records = result.to_json(orient='records') | |
#pretty print to CLI with tabulate | |
#converts to an ascii table | |
print(tabulate(result, headers=["Employee Name","Job Title","Overtime Pay","Total Gross Pay"],tablefmt='psql')) | |
#get current working directory | |
path = os.getcwd() | |
#open, write, and close the file | |
f = open(path + "\\fhsu_payroll_data.json","w") #FHSU | |
f.write(json_records) | |
f.close() |
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How could this be modified to save as CSV instead of JSON?