📅 2025-07-14 — Session: Developed CSV to JSONL Scraping Script with Spider API
🕒 03:20–03:40
🏷️ Labels: Scraping, Python, Spider Api, CSV, JSONL
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to develop a Python script for web scraping, converting data from CSV to JSONL format using the Spider API.
Key Activities
- Adapted a scraping script to read URLs from a CSV file and output the results in JSONL format.
- Implemented error handling and environment variable management.
- Addressed a RuntimeError with PromptFlow by installing a fallback keyring backend and configuring environment variables.
- Resolved integration issues between Streamlit and PromptFlow CLI, ensuring proper environment variable handling.
Achievements
- Successfully created a Spider-based web scraper that reads from CSV files and outputs JSONL.
- Implemented robust error handling and logging.
- Ensured secure handling of API keys through environment variable configuration.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the scraping script in different environments.
- Continuous monitoring of the integration between Streamlit and PromptFlow CLI.