Mashup Part 1: Scraping Data from King County

In this assignment, you’ll build a mashup combining data from one site with data from another, and formatting from yet another to extract meaning from information.

Tasks

Follow along with this tutorial to build a script that scrapes restaurant health inspection data from the King County government website.

Note that although solutions for all the code you must write are present in the document, they are hidden by default. Try your hand at writing the functions yourself first, and only click on “Peek at a solution” if you are stumped as to how to proceed.

When the script is run from the command line, it should print out the list of results in a readable format.

Submitting Your Assignment

To submit this assignment, create a github repository called basic-scraper. Once the basic repository is set up with README and license, make a branch called step1 and add your scraper script to it. Edit the README to contain a description of the work you’ve done and lists any collaborators you used.

When your work is complete, submit a pull request and copy and submit the URL for that request. Once that is done, you may merge your branch back to master to prepare for tomorrow’s enhancements.