This project aims to scrape the best-selling Nintendo Switch games from the Wikipedia page List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games and also takes the user reviews from Metacentric's website using Python, Beautiful Soup, and Pandas. The scraped data will be stored in an Excel sheet.
To run this project, you need to have the following installed:
- Python 3 (version 3.6 or higher)
- Beautiful Soup (version 4 or higher)
- Pandas (version 1.0 or higher)
- Clone this repository to your local machine: git clone https://github.com/BipinNeupane/nintendo-switch-scrapped.git
- Change into the project directory:
cd nintendo-switch-scrapped - Install the required Python packages using pip:
pip install beautifulsoup4 pandas
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Open the
scraper.ipynbscript: -
The script will scrape the Wikipedia page and store the data in an Excel file named
nintendo_switch_games.xlsxin the same directory.
Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.
This project is licensed ungder the MIT License. You can find more details in the LICENSE file.
- This project was inspired by the need to gather data on the best-selling Nintendo Switch games.
- Thanks to the creators of Python, Beautiful Soup, and Pandas for their fantastic tools that made this project possible.