Library Book Scraper

• Name: Poon Ho Chuen
• Class number: 15
• Course: CT290DS003 Python 網站框架開發助理證書
• Institution: 港專職業訓練學院

Library Book Scraper is a Python script developed as part of the CT290DS003 Python 網站框架開發助理證書 course at 港專職業訓練學院. It automates the process of extracting book information from a library website using Selenium WebDriver to navigate through paginated book listings and scrape details such as title, author, publication year, and other metadata.

• Scrapes book details from multiple pages
• Extracts comprehensive metadata for each book
• Exports data to a CSV file for easy analysis
• Utilizes headless browser for efficient scraping

• Python 3.12.7
• Selenium WebDriver
• Chrome WebDriver

1. Clone this repository:

git clone [email protected]:ellery79/selenium_homework.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd selenium_homework

3. Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Download the appropriate version of ChromeDriver for your system and place it in the ./chromedriver/ directory. Download address: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

Run the script with the following command:

python scraper.py

The scraped data will be saved in scraped_books.csv in the same directory.

The script generates a CSV file named scraped_books.csv with the following columns:

• Title
• District
• Author
• Copy ID
• Publication Year
• Publisher
• Call Number
• Edition
• New Release

This project was developed as part of the curriculum for CT290DS003 Python 網站框架開發助理證書 at 港專職業訓練學院. It serves as a practical application of web scraping techniques and Python programming skills learned during the course.

This project is licensed under a custom Educational Project License. See the LICENSE file for details.

This script is for educational purposes only. Make sure you have permission to scrape the target website and comply with their terms of service.

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