Web Scraping for Best Summer Spots by TripAdvisor using Selenium and Python!

Can’t decide where to spend the dog days of summer?

This list of top summer spots is guaranteed to have at least one destination perfect for you.

Spoiler: Most of them are on the coast!

In this project, I have used the TripAdvisor's post to identify the top destinations to be considered to be visited this Summer. I have used Selenium and Python to build a web scraper which traverses the site and obtains necessary data regarding the locations and converts the data into CSV format to be viewed.

To run the software application, following are steps:

1. Download the repository in your system.
2. Make sure you have 'Selenium' installed (You can 'pip install selenium'!!).
3. You need to have Chrome Driver on your system (Download here).
4. Note down the path where chrome driver is downloaded.
5. Open 'best-locations.py' file.
6. Edit the path on line no. 8 of the file.
7. Run it.

Upon running the file, you would have a 'best_locations.csv' file exported to your working directory. You can also view the project notebook 'Best-Locations.ipynb' where the steps of the executions involved are explained in detail.

Have a look at it and decide which place suits you the most to chill around in the coming days of Summer!!!