📚 Book Scraper

Scrape books like a boss! 🚀

Extract book data from books.toscrape.com with style

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🎯 What's This?

A super cool web scraper that grabs book info from an online bookstore. Think of it as your personal digital librarian that works 24/7! 📖

✨ What You Get

• 📚 Book titles, prices, ratings
• 📊 Clean, organized data
• 💾 Export to CSV, Excel, JSON
• 🎯 Error handling & retries
• ⚡ Fast & respectful scraping

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🚀 Quick Start

# 1. Clone it
git clone <your-repo-url>
cd Book-scraping

# 2. Install stuff
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 3. Run it!
jupyter notebook book_scraper_optimized.ipynb

That's it! 🎉

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🎮 How to Use

Option 1: Jupyter Notebook (Recommended)

jupyter notebook book_scraper_optimized.ipynb

Perfect for learning and experimenting

Option 2: Command Line

py book_scraper.py --max-pages 5

For the terminal warriors

Option 3: As a Module

from book_scraper import BookScraper
scraper = BookScraper()
data = scraper.scrape_all_books(max_pages=10)

For the code ninjas

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📊 Sample Output

📚 Total books: 1000
💰 Price range: £10.00 - £59.99
⭐ Rating Distribution:
  Three: 250 books
  Four: 200 books
  Five: 180 books
📦 Availability: 950 in stock, 50 out of stock

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🛠️ What's Inside

Book-scraping/
├── 📄 book_scraper_optimized.ipynb  # Main notebook
├── 🐍 book_scraper.py               # CLI script
├── ⚙️ config.py                     # Settings
├── 🔧 utils.py                      # Helpers
├── 🧪 test_scraper.py               # Tests
└── 📋 requirements.txt              # Dependencies

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🐛 Troubleshooting

Problem: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4' Solution: pip install -r requirements.txt

Problem: Website not responding Solution: Check your internet connection

Problem: Rate limited Solution: Increase delay: --delay 2

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork it 🍴
2. Create a branch 🌿
3. Make changes ✏️
4. Submit PR 🚀

Ideas welcome! 💡

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⚠️ Disclaimer

For educational purposes only! Always be respectful when scraping websites. Use delays and follow robots.txt! 🤖

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🌟 Star the Repository

If you find this project helpful, please give it a ⭐ on GitHub!

📞 Connect & Support

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Made with ❤️ and ☕ by Jonathan Thota

Scraping the web, one book at a time! 📖