Web Scraper with Beautiful Soup

This is my first project to portfolio, showing web scraper implemented using Beautiful Soup, a Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents.

Description

This is my first portfolio project showing Python Codings skills. This web scraper is designed to extract recipes from the Bianca Zapatka Blog

The app task is to scrape recipes from Culinary Blog and save them to JSON file.

Used libraries

Beautiful Soup 4 - Well known web scraper which allows parse HTML files and extract desired data.

tqdm - Python library responsible for displaying progress bars

FastAPI - Modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs based on standard Python type hints.

Features

• Fetches recipes content from a Bianca Zapatka blog
• Parses the HTML using Beautiful Soup
• Extracts data based on specified CSS selectors
• Saves extracted data to JSON file for further processing
• Serves the extracted data via FastAPI

Planned features

• Sending Slack / email notification when the new recipes are found
• Adding nutrition information to the recipes using external API

Demo

• API endpoint

• API documentation

• Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• Docker
• Docker compose

Usage

1. Clone the repository
2. Build the stack
   • Run docker-compose build
3. Run the stack
   • Run docker-compose up