Results of Scraping a listing of all UK Tory Local Government Councillors
Adjustments: The scraping selectors (e.g., li > a) must be adapted based on the actual structure of the HTML from the websites. Use browser developer tools to inspect page elements. Error Handling: Add exception handling to manage errors, such as broken links or unavailable pages. Ethical Considerations: Make sure to respect robots.txt files and terms of use of these sites. Permissions: For scraping candidates.democracyclub.org.uk, you may need explicit permission if the content is protected. Required Libraries Install the necessary libraries with: [enter >]$ pip install requests beautifulsoup4 PyPDF2
To make the Applications script code executable on UNIX/LINUX platforms (including MacOS), [enter>]$ chmod u+x tory_councillors.py. The requisite Python installation and execution guide should be read, for Microsoft Windows platforms