Data Collection for Non-profit Orgs in Clothes Category #43
Description
Description:
We need to collect data on charities categorized under Clothes Category from Charity Navigator. We need to collect 20 non-profit for this category. The goal is to compile a dataset that includes the following details for each charity:
Name
Location (City, State)
URL
Phone Number
Category
Address
Description
Potential Data Sources
Tasks (Steps):
- Research if Charity Navigator offers a free API for extracting charity details.
If an API is available:
- Document how to use it.
- Write a simple script to extract the relevant information.
If no API is available:
- Explore web scraping methods using BeautifulSoup or Selenium.
- Clean and structure the collected data into a CSV/JSON format.
Resources:
Charity Navigator website: https://www.charitynavigator.org/
The data collected will be used on our website: https://test-saayam.netlify.app/organization/5
Attached see the pages where the data will be used.
NOTE:
The code must be reusable and check if the organization is already present in the dataset, then skip it.
