TiaDay/books-to-scrape-page1

Books to Scrape – Page 1

Dataset Summary

Book records scraped from the first page of the Books to Scrape demo site. I created this dataset for a class assignment to practise web scraping, pandas, and publishing a dataset to the Hugging Face Hub.

Data Collection

• —Source: https://books.toscrape.com/ (public test site for scraping practice)
• —Method: requests.get("https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/page-1.html")
• —Parsed with BeautifulSoup, selecting each <article class="product_pod">.

Columns

Original scraped fields:

• —title
• —price_text
• —availability_text
• —rating_text

Augmented / derived fields:

• —price_gbp – numeric price in GBP
• —in_stock – True if availability contains “In stock”
• —rating_numeric – star rating mapped to 1–5
• —is_expensive – True if price_gbp > 30
• —title_length – length of the title string

Intended Use & Limitations

• —For educational use only (learning scraping and data processing).
• —Small demo dataset from a fake site – not suitable for real analysis or production models.

Licensing & Compliance

• —Data originates from the public “Books to Scrape” demo website.
• —No personal or sensitive information is included and no login was required.
• —Processed CSV and this documentation are released under the MIT license.