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Web scraping Animal Crossing data using Puppeteer

Read Write Exercise

Walkthrough of how to use headless browser Puppeteer to scrape website data for Animal Crossing data.

Check out the follow-up to this video where Jack builds a UI for the data I pull in this script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6CgUFyXxw

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https://github.com/bradydowling/animal-crossing-scraper/tree/master

This video is a collaboration with Blue Collar Coder, Jack Herrington (https://www.youtube.com/user/jherr2006), and was inspired by his family playing Animal Crossing and wanting a quick way of getting info about the animals in the game (I've know nothing about it).

Web scraping (or crawling) is a great way to get data that is not available via an API or CLI of some sort. In this video, I walk through my process of pulling data from an Animal Crossing website. Once I pull it down, I sent it over to Jack so he could put it together into a searchable UI.

This is the first time I used Puppeteer. I normally use Cheerio for web scraping so this ended up being my longest video to date with the most time spent editing.

Web scraping Animal Crossing data using Puppeteer | Knoovi