Developed Python scripts for radio schedule management

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📅 2023-08-03 — Session: Developed Python scripts for radio schedule management

🕒 20:40–20:55
🏷️ Labels: Python, Web Scraping, Data Management, Beautifulsoup, CSV
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to develop and execute Python scripts for web scraping and managing radio schedule data.

Key Activities

  • Developed a Python script using BeautifulSoup and requests to scrape schedule data from specified URLs.
  • Extracted names of people associated with programs from HTML descriptions using Python.
  • Implemented a Python code snippet to extract radio station names from URLs.
  • Created a Python one-liner to generate a list of URLs from radio names.
  • Saved radio schedules into a CSV file using Python’s built-in csv module.
  • Aggregated schedules from multiple stations into a single master list for easier identification and analysis.

Achievements

  • Successfully developed scripts to scrape, process, and save radio schedule data.
  • Enhanced data extraction techniques for program and station names.
  • Streamlined the process of generating and handling URLs for radio stations.

Pending Tasks

  • Validate the accuracy of the scraped and aggregated data.
  • Optimize the scripts for performance and error handling.

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