Web scraping Animal Crossing data using Puppeteer
Walkthrough of how to use headless browser Puppeteer to scrape website data for Animal Crossing data.
Check out the follow-up to this video where Jack builds a UI for the data I pull in this script: • Tech A Day #28 - Vue
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https://github.com/bradydowling/anima...
This video is a collaboration with Blue Collar Coder, Jack Herrington ( / jherr2006 , and was inspired by his family playing Animal Crossing and wanting a quick way of getting info about the animals in the game (I've know nothing about it).
Web scraping (or crawling) is a great way to get data that is not available via an API or CLI of some sort. In this video, I walk through my process of pulling data from an Animal Crossing website. Once I pull it down, I sent it over to Jack so he could put it together into a searchable UI.
This is the first time I used Puppeteer. I normally use Cheerio for web scraping so this ended up being my longest video to date with the most time spent editing.