IT 630 University of Nebraska High School Program Using BeautifulSoup Project you can finish Problem 1,2 befor May 29. Problem 3,4 before June 2. craigsli

IT 630 University of Nebraska High School Program Using BeautifulSoup Project you can finish Problem 1,2 befor May 29. Problem 3,4 before June 2.
craigslist is a popular web site used by many for a variety of different things. Those
familiar with it know that the searches and data results are presented in the same format
irrespective of what one wants to retrieve from it. Our goal is to pick one search area of
the web site, formulate a search that will yield data which spans at least 3 pages. You can
hard-code the URL for the search criteria you are interested in getting.

Next, using BeautifulSoup, write a program in Python to extract the data from this web site. Look
at the source of the first page of your search results and analyze it a bit and locate where the
results start appearing. Identify the closest tag that you will be able to use meaningfully to extract
all the results in a consistent manner. You are likely to have to experiment with the best way of
getting rows of data after you are able to get one row. (If you are seeing only images, go to List
View on the web site and you will see a descriptive listing).

After getting one page of data, your next step is to get results of the rest of the pages by locating
the hyperlink that points to the next page and running through the segment of your program again
(in a loop) as many times as required.

Eventually you should output the following to a CSV file for each posting found in the results
list: Date & Time of posting; Text of the posting; Hyperlink to get the details of that posting.
Initially simply print your results out, when you are happy with getting the results in the correct
format you can write them out to the CSV file. You should be able to open the file in Excel and
see the data in 3 separate columns.