Mars Web Scraping project
Created a web page to show information about mars from 4 different sources. Extracted Mars content from three different websites utilizing HTML Parsers Splinter and BeautifulSoup. Then created a flask application to route to content a new HTML webpage to display all the aggregated Mars information.
• Role: Sole author
• Tools: flash, python, pandas, jupyter notebook, beatifulSoup, Browser, HTML
###Summary of web page At the top is a button the user presses to call the scrape route which in turn call the scrape.py to scrape the 4 webpages that contain the information that needs to be displayed. Then the page will display the latest mars news at the top. Then to the right a table of mars facts will then display. At the bottom of the page you will see pictures that are clickable and take you to a larger image of each hemispheres as well as some facts.
###How the Mars Scraping web scraping app works In the mars_scrape.py are functions that can scrape the 4 differnt sites. Then a flask app was created with routes that call those fuctions and routes that information to the HTML page.