README.md

Population Data Scraper

This Python script uses Selenium to scrape population data by country from the Worldometer website and stores it in an Excel file.

Instructions

1. Install the required dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt.

2. Make sure you have Google Chrome installed and download the appropriate ChromeDriver executable for your system from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads.

3. Edit the webdriver_path variable in the script to point to the location of the downloaded ChromeDriver executable.

4. Run the script. It will open a Chrome browser, scrape the data, and save it to an Excel file.

5. The scraped data will be saved in a file named population_data.xlsx in the same directory as the script.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• Chrome browser
• ChromeDriver executable (downloaded and specified in the script)

Dependencies

• Selenium
• pandas

Usage

python population_scraper.py