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freelancer.com 🟡 2026-05-12

🔹 Python Web Scraping Script for Text Extraction
👤 Client: 🇨🇦 Trois-Rivieres, Canada Member since 2025-12-19
💰 Price: $134 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Extract and save text content from specified websites in a structured format.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] - Python script for web scraping
[Method] - Use requests, BeautifulSoup, and Scrapy (if needed) for robust data extraction
[UI/UX] - Clean, structured output (CSV or JSON)
[Stack] - Python, requests, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, pandas
[Security] - Polite scraping practices including user-agent rotation, rate limiting, and retry logic
[Format] - CSV or JSON

Workflow:

1. Define selectors for headings, paragraphs, and other text elements using CSS or XPath.
2. Implement error handling for HTTP errors and network issues with retries.
3. Use user-agent rotation to avoid detection by web servers.
4. Apply rate limiting to prevent overloading the target sites.
5. Parse HTML content using BeautifulSoup to extract text data.
6. Save extracted data into a structured format (CSV or JSON).