🕷️️ Job Radar • SCRAPING

freelancer.com 🟠 2026-05-18

🔹 [Target] Weekly Website Text Data Scraper
👤 Client: 🇮🇳 Bhavnagar, India Member since 2026-05-18
💰 Price: $19 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Automate the extraction of text data from a specified website and compile it into an Excel workbook weekly.
📦 Existing: Not specified.

Specifications:

[Method] Implement a web scraping solution using Python with libraries like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy.
[UI/UX] Not applicable as this is a backend task.
[Stack] Python, BeautifulSoup/Scrapy, Pandas for data manipulation, Openpyxl for Excel export.
[Security] Ensure the scraper adheres to website terms of service and robots.txt. Implement rate limiting to avoid overloading the server.
[Format] Export scraped data into an Excel workbook with a clear structure (e.g., sheet per page or category).

Workflow:

Analyze the target website's structure using browser developer tools to identify text content locations.
Develop and test web scraping scripts using Python, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical guidelines.
Implement data cleaning and formatting logic within the script to prepare data for export.
Use Pandas to process and organize scraped data into a structured format.
Export processed data into an Excel workbook using Openpyxl or similar library.
Schedule the scraping task to run weekly via a cron job or equivalent scheduler.