UMPD_Crime_Scraper

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• Python Jupyter Notebook file to scrape HTML data from UMPD's crime website with BeautifulSoup4, clean it up with Pandas, and export it as .csv for analysis https://www.umpd.umd.edu/stats/incident_logs.cfm?year=2023&month=1

• Published article using this data: https://dbknews.com/2022/11/07/indecent-exposure-umd-college-park/

Updates:

• 9/24/2022
  • Added feature to scan multiple months and years (currently hardcoded to 9/2017 --> 9/2022) Can change with year_start and month_start feature

👋 Questions or bugs reach out to me: skanipakala@gmail.com