Project Information

• Category: Class
• Sub-Category: Scenario
• Project Date: February 20th, 2021
• Project Repository: Web Scraping Challenge

Premise: Mission to Mars - Build a web application that scrapes the following websites for data and images related to the Mission to Mars, then display the information in a single HTML page. The page uses Flask to handle the scrape triggering.

• Mars News
• JPL Space Imaging
• Mars Facts
• USGS Astrogeology

Purpose: Build practice and confidence in web scraping with BeautifulSoup, Splinter, and API Requests as well as hosting the web pages locally with Flask. Completed as part of the Data Science and Visualization Certificate through the University of California, San Diego.