scrape-CAMX

Scraping exhibitors from camx 2022 (The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo).

Motivation

Get a better, structured overview or do analysis on where the companies operate and in which fields.

Procedure and result

The webdriver runs headless, which means the browser will actually not be visible. A couple of useful settings have been set:

• "javascript.enabled", True It is here required that Javascript is enabled.
• "permissions.default.image", 2, No images will be loaded.
• "plugin.state.flash", 0 Flash is set deactivated.
• "toolkit.telemetry.unified", False Telemetry is deactivated.

The following data is being extracted and saved into a csv spreadsheet:

• Company name
• Homepage URL
• Address
• Phone and Fax number
• Product categories (the sub-fields in which they operate)
• Description (a company's profile description)

Get started

After the development setup has been established (see below), just run it.

Development setup

Prominent required external libraries are

• Selenium: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium
• Geckodriver https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

Selenium:

pip install selenium

Geckodriver: Download latest release and put it into your development folder, (i.e. C:/Users/yourUsername/Anaconda3). Make sure this path is set as environmental variable.

Meta

Author: Jonas Dossmann

Distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license.

https://github.com/dossma/