📅 2025-01-16 — Session: Developed and Updated Data Extraction Scripts
🕒 16:45–17:15
🏷️ Labels: Python, Data Extraction, Web Scraping, Automation, JSON
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to develop and update Python scripts for extracting data from HTML files, specifically focusing on Instagram profile data and chat messages.
Key Activities
- Developed a Python script to parse HTML files and extract Instagram usernames and profile links, saving the data into a CSV file.
- Created and updated a script to extract chat data from HTML files, structuring the data into JSON format. This included extracting sender names, message content, and timestamps.
- Updated a script to parse
chats.htmland extract links to individual chat files, saving them in a JSON format for further processing.
Achievements
- Successfully developed scripts for extracting Instagram profile data and chat messages.
- Improved the existing scripts to handle data extraction and organization into CSV and JSON formats.
Pending Tasks
- Further processing of individual chat files to extract detailed dialogue and additional data insights.