kickstarter_scraper

Scrapes the Kickstarter Data into an excel sheet for further analysis.

Installation

To install the required dependencies, run the command

pip install -Ur requirements.txt

Running

To run the script, run the command

python scraper.py

The script will ask for two pieces of information,

1. Category ID
2. Number of Pages to scrape

You will need to enter the category ID of the category you want the data for. It will be a number which can be found at the search query of your kickstarter search. For Example,

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=334&sort=magic&seed=2539214&page=1

In the above example, the category ID is 334. This ID should be entered in the program when asked for it. Also enter the amount of pages you want to scrape when asked for it.
The program will execute once you enter the Category ID and choose the number of pages to scrape and a new excel file will be created in the same folder with the timestamp in the file name each time the script is run.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License. See the license file for details.