Description:

This project is a self-hosted web scraping application built using Flask. It allows users to extract data from websites and display it in a user-friendly format.

Dependencies

- BeautifulSoup4
- Flask
- plyer

You can install the neccessary dependencies by entering this into your terminal: pip install plyer, flask, beautifulsoup4

How to run application

• Download all files provided (make sure to have HTML files in templates folder and CSS files in static folder)
• Navigate to the directory where the files are located in your terminal
• Enter the command: python scrapeit.py
• Open your web browser: Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/home to access the application

Troubleshooting

If your Flask application is not running correctly, try do this...

• Make sure files are correctly placed in correct folders and are all in the same directory
• Make sure you have all dependencies installed correctly