📬 Web Scraper 2.0

A Python-based tool that scrapes company websites for contact emails and phone numbers using the Brave Search API. Designed for academic and freelance automation, with a clean GUI and strict typing.

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Searches company websites using Brave Search API
• 📧 Extracts one valid email per company
• 📞 Extracts one phone number (9–12 digits, cleans + signs)
• 🌐 GUI built with Tkinter for easy file upload and progress tracking
• 🛡️ Keeps API keys and secrets out of source using .env

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Setup

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Thisuri12/web-scraper cd web-scraper

2. Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended)

python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Add your Brave API key to .env (This file is ignored by Git using .gitignore)

Create a .env file in the root directory: BRAVE_API_KEY=your_actual_api_key_here

🖥️ How to Run-> python main.py

Use the GUI to:

• Upload your Excel file with Company and Region columns
• Select a country
• Start scraping and save results to a new Excel file

📁 Input Format Your Excel file should have: Company Region Corp Milan Ltd Berlin

✅ Output Format Company Region Website Emails Phone Numbers Corp Milan ... info@example.com 0123456789

🔐 Security Notes -API keys are stored in .env and never committed to Git -.gitignore protects .env, cache files, and OS artifacts

📄 License MIT License. Feel free to fork, improve, and share.

🙌 Credits Built by Thisuri with ❤️ and Python.