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it's very slow for me. i'm looking into python and all the other stuff. if you one specifically that will scrap the whole site, i'm down to run it. any OS except mac i can use. i can't copy/paste each agent page, looking to scrap the whole site at once
edit!
i think i have it scraping it all to html files. it's taking time, just trying to make sure it gets the agents and incidents at least.
I see the edit, sweet!
I wouldn’t be able to write the script myself because I can’t load the site at all. So I can’t analyze the html and determine how to loop through it an extract all the additional links for scraping. Unless you want to send me the html. Then I can work with that, but without testing on the live site.
If you have something working though, great! Let’s just start there.
Check by opening one of the html files with your browser, or VSCode or something, and see if it has the data you were expecting.
the files look correct, just html version of the pages, just not sure if it's going to crawl and get every page. i don't even are if it's just a folder of html file sat this time, as long as all the agents are retrived. will keep testing.
I just set up a little bot in Jupyter Notebook to get them as well, and it’s working! Very slow, but working. I just fetched all the links to the agent detail pages. There are 1532 total. Once I fetch all the detail pages, I’ll move on to the incidents too.
Definitely keep pulling yourself, though. Who knows if I will be able to get them all?
Anything else worth grabbing while I can?
not sure, i'm looking through agents now. it's HTML, and loads with broken CSS/styles, but the text is there
we'll have more once the site is fully working. maybe the admin will allow ZIN backup downloads, make it easier to mirror. i don't htink he expected to get this much traction.
these people just straight up advertise they're pieces of shit. wow. no shame.