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Python script for scraping pollution data from bbc / earthsense website
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from selenium import webdriver | |
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By | |
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait | |
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC | |
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys | |
import time | |
import csv | |
path_to_chromedriver = '/Users/Jamie/Projects/Propolis_Stuff/chromedriver' # change path as needed | |
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_to_chromedriver) | |
url = 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42566393' | |
browser.get(url) | |
browser.switch_to.frame(browser.find_element_by_class_name('pym-iframe')) | |
try: | |
element = WebDriverWait(browser, 5).until( | |
EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'postcode-input')) | |
) | |
finally: | |
with open('schoolsGM_min.csv') as schoolcsv: | |
reader = csv.reader(schoolcsv) | |
with open('postcode_score.csv', 'a') as p: | |
for row in reader: | |
schoolname = row[0] | |
URN = row[1] | |
postcode = row[2] | |
localauth = row[3] | |
browser.find_element_by_id('postcode-input').clear() | |
browser.find_element_by_id('postcode-input').send_keys(postcode) | |
browser.find_element_by_id('postcode-input').send_keys(Keys.ENTER) | |
time.sleep(0.4) | |
score = (browser.find_element_by_class_name('ffa__summary-rating').text) | |
p.write('"' + schoolname + '";"' + URN + '";"' + postcode + '";"' + score + '";"' + localauth + '"\n') | |
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