Imaad Fakier - Portfolio - Craigslist Clone (Django with Web Scraping)

Craigslist Clone (Django with Web Scraping)

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Technical Details:

Language: Python
Framework: Django
Libraries: requests, bs4, lxml
Concepts: Web Development, Web Scraping, Data Persistence, Django ORM, Data Storage, Beautiful Soup
Features: Implements web scraping to extract data from Craiglist search results, Stores user search queries in a database using Django's ORM, Uses a basic HTML template and Materialize CSS

Key Learnings:

This project provided in-depth practice in using Django to build web applications, implementing web scraping functionality with requests and Beautiful Soup, handling user input, and dynamically rendering data fetched from external sources. It also reinforced my understanding of database interactions, HTML, CSS, and front-end design principles.

Status:

Public Repository