#i initially had a different kaiju's page open and was just gonna use that | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

unnonexistence · 4 months ago

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using Trespasser's page on the pacific rim wiki as the first thing i practice web scraping on seems really appropriate. like... yeah there's this weird thing that just arrived from another dimension and no one knows how to deal with it now that it's here. we're just throwing things at it at this point.

#unscientific aside #adventures in programming #thankfully no widespread destruction yet lol #i initially had a different kaiju's page open and was just gonna use that #but then i was like. wait. wait no. it has to be trespasser #anyway im making progress but it is SLOW GOING #took me an hour to 1. get the right packages loaded #2. read in the html #3. try and fail to display the html i just read in to see if it worked #4. give up and continue on to the next step anyway #5. select the correct sections #6. throw out the extra sections that came along with the sections i actually wanted #i guess thats 6 things actually thats not so bad #but. HRRHRGH #next step is to shove the list into a tibble and see what happens #will having it in a tibble be actually useful? will it be formatted in a way i can use? i don't know!#only one way to find out

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