Getting into a Sweepstakes thanks to Webscraping
In 2024, E-Fellows.net, an online scholarship and career platform, hosted a sweepstakes on Halloween. In their collection of employer portraits, pages presenting various companies, they had hidden images of pumpkin ‘baskets’, containing candies. To enter the sweepstakes, I had the following objectives: Find 8 filled pumpkin baskets Note the names of the companies they were hidden on Note the motive shown on the candies packaging Note the number of candies in each basket As E-Fellows has a rather large company portfolio, I didn’t want to use a substancial amount of my time on reading advertisement. Instead, I decided to write a web scraper to do the job for me, and got a little practice for my web-scraping skills in the process. ...