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Data scraping aka "how to enjoy the collective intelligence"

In order to provide a list of exercises to personal trainers with tips about doing exercises correctly.

I had 2 options:

  • Teach my self with books and instructor feedback
  • Use the Magic of scraping combined with the Internet

I chose the second option.

In 1 hour, I created a script.

In a few seconds, I got a bit more than 2600 exercises from several personal trainers around the world with details to fill my database.

Oh yeah!

on March 13, 2020
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    Hey Alex, I am working on an idea which needs datascraping and i have no absolute idea on where to start. Can you help?

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      Hey vamsibatchu,

      I can help you about data scraping with Python & Javascript.
      Are you a programmer?

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    Scraping is the way to go but keep in mind 2600 exercises can't be unique so there would be many duplicates unless I'm missing something