Web scraping – publicly available data from multiple websites, Lahore
Job Posted: 14.07.2021 13:14:19
Skills required: We’re looking for a English-speaking web scraper to help us collect contact details from a variety of websites. Some of the websites require a postcode to search, so you will need to be able to bypass that, or be able to find the right postcodes to use to be able to unlock the entire directory of contact details behind the site. Also, we are only looking to collect contact details of childminders and nannies, so you need to be able to understand English to know where to look/filter on each website when necessary. Description of work: We are looking to create a list of all the childminders and nannies and their contact details in London and the Southeast region of the UK. There are 55 different local authorities in this area, so we are looking to scrape each of their web pages for childminder names and contact details. There should be approximately 13,000 contacts to collect. I’ve already compiled all the 55 links under ‘Local authority list’ tab here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uY48iRVcXyrTJrekUpVUjra7g00HQxGzbwxwp-FTBTY/edit#gid=732062809 For each local authority, we’re looking to collect the name, contact details, and Ofsted reference number for each childminder or nanny in the region (see a populated example in the ‘data collection master’ tab here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uY48iRVcXyrTJrekUpVUjra7g00HQxGzbwxwp-FTBTY/edit#gid=732062809) Then for each childminder, we also want to find their latest Ofsted rating and a link to their latest Ofsted report. You can find this by searching their Ofsted reference numbe on Ofsted’s database here: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/ The final deliverable is a gsheet tab with all the contact details, following the template and example in the ‘data collection master’ tab here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uY48iRVcXyrTJrekUpVUjra7g00HQxGzbwxwp-FTBTY/edit#gid=732062809 I’m looking to complete this project as soon as possible, ideally by the 16th of July.
