Skip to content

Commit 44fe968

Browse files
authored
Update README.md
1 parent ee99e23 commit 44fe968

File tree

1 file changed

+5
-2
lines changed

1 file changed

+5
-2
lines changed

README.md

Lines changed: 5 additions & 2 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
1-
# local-webscraping
2-
Webscraping from local HTML file
1+
# Webscraping from Local HTML File
2+
3+
- Some computation servers block users from pulling a URL directly, so we have to download the HTML page first. Then we can do webscraping locally to retrieve data from the HTML file.
4+
- Downloading static webpages allows us to retrieve the data even when the webpage is removed in the future. This is feasible for developing a "stand still in time" analysis.
5+
- If we want to auto-update a web dashboard, we will benefit from using external APIs, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics API [(link)](https://www.bls.gov/developers/api_signature_v2.htm). In this case, we will have to request access for these APIs.

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)