README.md

Yelp Restaurant data scraping using python, scrapy spider

Deployment

1. Clone Repository

  git clone https://github.com/farukalampro/yelp-webscraper-using-scrapy-python.git

  cd yelp-webscraper-using-scrapy-python

2. Create Virtual Environment

  python -m venv env

• For Windows:

  .\env\Scripts\activate

• For macOS/Linux:

  source env/bin/activate

3. To install required packages

  pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Input your own link from yelp.com

• Go to the data.py file. Insert link from Yelp
• I have added one link in data.py as a sample. You can insert as many links as you want.

      start_urls = [
        # This is the sample URL
        # Here you have to put your own search link
        'https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Restaurants&find_loc=San+Francisco%2C+CA' 
    ]

5. Run the command in the terminal

  scrapy crawl data -o sample_file.csv

• you can download the data in any format. I have given the format below

  scrapy crawl "spider name" -o file_name.csv/json/xml

• Here we have scraped some restaurant data which is in the Sample File folder

Important Note

• As Yelp is continuously updating its website, so make sure you are updating xpath