📅 2024-09-25 — Session: Developed and Debugged Web Scraping Automation
🕒 18:05–19:25
🏷️ Labels: Web Scraping, Python, Automation, AJAX, Http Errors
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The primary goal of this session was to develop and debug automation scripts for web scraping tasks, focusing on handling AJAX requests, HTTP errors, and session management.
Key Activities:
- Planned strategic actions for engaging key groups in educational campaigns.
- Developed code for reverse engineering web queries using Python to bypass UI restrictions.
- Provided naming suggestions for project notebooks to improve clarity.
- Addressed HTTP 405 errors with alternative methods and debugging strategies.
- Automated AJAX requests for department data retrieval using Python.
- Implemented login and session management automation with CSRF handling.
- Debugged AJAX queries and updated API query parameters for data retrieval.
- Diagnosed and fixed HTTP request errors, focusing on POST/GET methods and CSRF tokens.
- Requested HTML file upload for data extraction tasks.
Achievements:
- Successfully implemented automation scripts for AJAX requests and session management.
- Resolved HTTP 405 errors and improved request formatting.
Pending Tasks:
- Awaiting HTML file upload to proceed with data extraction and processing.