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🔹 Automated Business Data Scraper
👤 Client: 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia Member since 2014-08-30
💰 Price: $183 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Extract business details from a government website.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Business registration numbers, names, dates, addresses
[Method] Python with requests/BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for web scraping
[UI/UX] N/A
[Stack] Python, requests, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Pandas, CSV, JSON
[Security] Handle rate-limits, retries, CAPTCHA gracefully
[Format] Export data to CSV and JSON

Workflow:

Analyze the target website structure (HTML, pagination, search filters).
Develop a scraper script using Python with requests/BeautifulSoup or Scrapy.
Implement error handling for rate-limits, retries, and CAPTCHA.
Extract required fields accurately from each business listing.
Export data to CSV and JSON formats.
Test the script on a sample of 500 records.
Document the source code with comments and provide a README for setup instructions.