A randomized webscraper to scrape all the posts from Launch YC (https://www.ycombinator.com/launches).
You'll need to download a headless chrome driver and replace the line
webdriver_path = '/Users/hide/Downloads/chromedriver_mac64/chromedriver.exe'
with your own path
Run with python3 run.py
Example data looks like
{
"vote_count": "",
"company_name": "Locale",
"description": "A marketplace for prepared meals from top restaurants",
"post_date": "2023-05-25T09:14:35-07:00",
"cohort": "S2021",
"tags": [
"S2021",
"Grocery",
"Marketplace",
"Delivery",
"Food"
],
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IgH-locale-we-re-making-restaurant-delivery-affordable"
}
{
"vote_count": "",
"company_name": "Runway",
"description": "Better mobile build distribution for teams",
"post_date": "2023-05-24T08:53:19-07:00",
"cohort": "W2021",
"tags": [
"W2021",
"SaaS",
"B2B"
],
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IgC-build-distro-by-runway"
}
{
"vote_count": "",
"company_name": "Cosmic",
"description": "Cosmic is an API-first content management system (CMS). We provide a web dashboard to create content, and API tools to deliver content to any website or app. ",
"post_date": "2023-05-23T10:23:03-07:00",
"cohort": "W2019",
"tags": [
"W2019",
"Developer Tools",
"API"
],
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ifp-cosmic-headless-cms-and-api-toolkit-v2-0"
}
{
"vote_count": "",
"company_name": "Mesh Analytics",
"description": "AI-powered revenue analytics & attribution for B2B businesses",
"post_date": "2023-05-23T09:05:01-07:00",
"cohort": "S2022",
"tags": [
"S2022",
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"Analytics",
"Marketing"
],
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IfL-mesh-understand-what-s-driving-revenue-across-marketing-sales"
}
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