The purpose of this project is to scrape information from websites containinig eiter information or images and reflecting those scraped images or information onto a webpage.
The tools used to create this project includes Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code where packages such as Beautiful Soup, splinter, pandas, and cssutils were utilized.
Run the app.py file while the scrape_mars.py file is in the same root directory. The html file should be in a folder called "templates" with file named "index". After running the app.py file, open the chrome web browser and type localhost:5000 in the address bar. Once the page is accessed, press the "scrape new data" button to update the page.
Once the page is pdated, a featured image of mars should appear, along with the latest news, current weather, mars facts, the images of mar's hemispheres and their respective names.