Newbscraping: AI-Assisted Webscraping for Newbs

This repository provides a guided, step-by-step process for web scraping using Cursor AI, designed specifically for beginners with no prior web scraping or programming experience.

Whether you need to extract data from websites for research, business analysis, or personal projects, this repository will walk you through the entire process using Cursor's AI assistant. No coding knowledge required - the AI will handle all the technical aspects while you provide the requirements.

1. Complete the guided questionnaire in START_HERE.md to describe what you want to scrape
2. Download sample pages from your target website and place them in the html_input folder
3. Let Cursor AI analyze your requirements and create custom scraping scripts
4. Run the scripts to extract your data into organized CSV files

👉 Check out START_HERE.md to begin your web scraping journey!

This file contains a simple questionnaire that will guide you through defining your scraping requirements. Once you've completed it, Cursor AI will take over and create the necessary scripts to extract your data.

• Google Chrome or Edge, Firefox, Brave - Safari not supported
• Python 3, available from pythong.org or the Microsoft Store
• Cursor IDE with the Python extension, available at cursor.com (new users get free trial of Pro)

Everything else is handled automatically by the AI assistant!