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https://github.com/jameslafa/Scrapify

A bunch of website scraping scripts
https://github.com/jameslafa/Scrapify

data-journalism opendata scraper

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#Scrapify



**The web is full of data, but frequently not in a usable way.**



**To build apps or analyze data, we need data in open-format files, not on a website in html tables...**



You'll find here some scripts to help you scrapping (extracting) data from different websites and generate csv files. Thanks to these files, you'll be able to build great things (article, data visualizations, etc.).



Don't look for a awesome tool to help you to scrap website, it is not. Here you'll find some short scripts, pushed because they might help someone. We don't even ensure the quality of the code ;-)



####Please participate



We can't maintain every script or keep them up-to-date. The scraped website may totally have changed their structure since the script was built. So we can't ensure that the script will work.



If you created some new script to scrape data, we will be pleased to add it to this repository to help more people.



In both cases, please create a [Pull Request][1] and we'll be very thankful for your help.



####Copyrights



The content of the repository is under MIT License (please see [below][8]). To make it short, you can do whatever you want we the code. Read it, share it, modify it, eat it!



**BUT**, yes there is always one :



These scripts are tools to help you scrapping data, it doesn't mean that you're allowed to do so! So please check the license of the website you are scrapping in case you want to use/publish this data.



We won't be responsible for any unlawful use of these scripts because we have lots of work to do and going to prison might slow us down :-) I'm pretty sure you may understand that!



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#####Why csv files?



Well, first csv is an open format so it should live forever. Then you can open and use csv file with almost everything.



**If you are a developer:**



 - using [Ruby][2]

 - using [Python][3]

 - using [Node.js][4]

 - etc.



**If you are a journalist or yet another human being:**



 - using [LibreOffice][5]

 - using Excel (but why pay when free software exists ? :-)



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###Websites



 1. **International Centre for Prison Studies** [(http://prisonstudies.org)][6]: data about prison system around the world.



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###Thank you

 - [Marie Coussin][7] for your English corrections

 - [Nicolas Kayser-Bril][9] for being my SPO (Spell Check Officer)

 - You, if you contribute!



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###The MIT License (MIT)



Copyright (c) 2013 AngryKatze



Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:



The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

all copies or substantial portions of the Software.



THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

THE SOFTWARE.



  [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests

  [2]: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html

  [3]: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/csv.html

  [4]: https://github.com/wdavidw/node-csv

  [5]: https://fr.libreoffice.org/

  [6]: http://prisonstudies.org/

  [7]: https://twitter.com/MarieCoussin

  [8]: #the-mit-license-mit

  [9]: https://twitter.com/nicolaskb