Web Scraping Homework - Mission to Mars

A web application that scrapes various websites for data related to the Mission to Mars and displays the information in a single HTML page.

Scraping

Mars News

• Collect the news title and news description of the latest news

JPL Mars Space Images - Featured Image

• Find the image url for the current Featured Mars Image

Mars Weather

• Scrape the latest Mars weather tweet from the page

Mars Facts

• Scrape the table containing facts about the planet including Diameter, Mass, etc.

Mars Hemispheres

• Obtain urls of high resolution images for each of Mar's hemispheres

File(s): mission_to_mars.ipynb

MongoDB and Flask Application

Use MongoDB with Flask templating to create a new HTML page that displays all of the information that was scraped from the URLs above.

File(s): app.py, scrape_mars.py, nbconvert.ipnyb

Screenshot of application