Creating Python dataframes using a County Jail Daily Booking Register (Snohomish, WA)

[BrandonKastning]

Yes have something to look into and learn,the problem is that you choose not so easy task start with.
Also when struggle with the basic fundamentals of Python,then is not so easy

So to show a demo on how to start,as this site has some challenges.
The description info is generated bye JavaScript,so need to use Selenium.
Need to first click on expand all to activate all data.
Then can parse name and a value as test.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time

#--| Setup
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1980,1020")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'chromedriver.exe', options=options)

#--| Parse or automation
url = 'http://www.snoco.org/app/corrections/jailregister/dailyBookingRegister.aspx'
browser.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, 'lxml')
expan = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('#expandAll')
expan[0].click()
name = soup.select_one('#bookingName1') # Use BS
charge_description = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('#booking1 > p > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(2) > td:nth-child(1)') # Use Sel
print(name.text)
print(charge_description[0].text)

Output:
ALFORD, CALEB AARON
PAROLE VIOLATION 

snippsat,

Thank you sir for a great starting point with my tasks and challenges set before me with complicated not beginner python projects. You have given me lots of information between this thread and the other which I believe will set me in the right direction.

Upon making progress I will update the threads accordingly!

Best Regards and God Bless,

Brandon Kastning