Housefly

Web scraping is an essential skill for developers, but learning it can be tricky. That’s why I created Housefly, a hands-on project designed to teach web scraping through interactive exercises. Inspired by Google Gruyere, Housefly provides a series of small tutorials with dedicated companion websites built to be scraped. The goal? To give you a safe, structured environment to practice and refine your scraping skills.

Why Did I Make This?

I’ve seen countless tutorials that explain web scraping in theory, but very few offer real, controlled environments to experiment in. Housefly solves that by providing self-contained challenges where you scrape provided websites and verify your solutions against expected outputs. It’s built for hands-on learners who want to do rather than just read.

How to Get Started

Instructions are in the README.md file of the GitHub repository. From there, you can follow the steps to set up and run the project.