Gab Scraper

Welcome to the gab-scraper repository!

This repository contains a Python script that scrapes user and post data from the social media platform Gab and writes the data to a CSV file.

To use the script, simply call the get_details_and_write_csv function and pass in a Gab user's profile link as a string argument. The function will scrape the user's details and their post details, and write the data to a CSV file named after the user's username.

Tech Stack

• Python
• requests module
• csv module

Lessons Learned

• How to scrape data from a website using the requests module in Python
• How to write data to a CSV file using the csv module in Python
• How to scrape data from a website without using BeautifulSoup or Selenium.

Feature(s)

• Scrapes user and post data from Gab and writes the data to a CSV file
• Accepts a Gab user's profile link as an argument and returns the user's details and their post details
• Makes use of the requests and csv modules to send HTTP requests and write data to a CSV file
• Demonstrates how to scrape data from a website using only the requests module, without using BeautifulSoup or Selenium.

Resources

• Always Check for the Hidden API when Web Scraping
• YouTube tutorials on web scraping with Python and the requests module.