New Project: Scraping Data about startups

[dtmunir]

Hamdan,

Here's a new project that is not high priority, but something that we can tackle on days where you are blocked with the stock trading project.

Overview

As a startup investor, it is very helpful to have all the up-to-date information about both a specific startup, as well as all new startups that are coming out. We will build a program that allows scraping the information about startups from specific websites.

Our goal here is to a program called startup-hunter.py which will over time, have several functions to both a) Discover new startups in bulk and b) Dig into a specific startup and find out everything new there is to know about it

We will start this program by first displaying all the information on the console. However, over time this program will feed the information directly into a tool like Google Sheets or AirTable, or some other online platform.

Goals

1. Build a function that takes a url as parameter, and captures a screenshot of a website and saves it in the current director with the filename being "[website name]-[date].jpg"

2. Build a function that takes a url as parameter, and searches crunchbase.com for that website and finds out and prints everything we can know from crunchbase about that company