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Stars Near Earth - Back End

Project Objective

Stars Near Earth was made in order to put the Web Scraping technique into practice. The main table of this page on Wikipedia is scraped and processed to give it a format and obtain the images of each star. This repository is related to the scrap the information and return a API. Selection Menu

Features

  • Beautifulsoup is used to do the data extraction.
  • Depending on the cores of the team that executes the process.
  • The multiprocessing technique is used. Since Python hosting only has one core. You can select the type of process you want to use to display the information. Either load the saved stars or use the API and scrape.

Showing the image of the star obtained by Wikipedia.