BuiltWith: add API-based scraper (no Selenium) #243
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Status (WIP)
New script 311-data/webscraping/builtwith_api_scrape.py (BuiltWith/RapidAPI path).
Reads URLs from the wide NCsurvey.csv (“NC URL (if avail)” row) and iterates all 97 domains.
Current stop point: completes the lookups but crashes when building the CSVs → KeyError: ['technology'].
Why: Free BuiltWith/RapidAPI response doesn’t always include technologies in the fields our parser expected.
Next steps:
Make parser tolerant of multiple response shapes.
Guard output step so it writes empty CSVs when no rows are returned.
(If org has a full BuiltWith API key, run again to populate tech tables.)