Kenny Kyunghoon Lee [email protected]

1. Vicemo Scraper is a Python web scraper that collects data from vicemo.com, which tracks real, publicly available Venmo transactions involving drugs, booze, and sex, created by Mike Lacher and Chris Baker. This module automatically cleanses and analyzes the data to create a simple visualization on the what the most frequently mentioned words and emojis related to sex, alcohol and drugs are on Venmo on a real-time basis.
2. There are three .py files.
   • main.py
   • vicemo_scraper.py
   • visualization.py
3. There are five relevant classes.
   1. LetMeScrapeThat() [vicemo_scraper.py]
   2. LetMeParseThat() [vicemo_scraper.py]
   3. LetMeAnalyzeThat() [vicemo_scraper.py]
   4. VicemoScraper() [vicemo_scraper.py]
   5. LetMeVisualizeThat() [visualizedata.py]
4. [vicemo_scraper.py] is for the extraction of the data and analyzedata.py is for data analysis.
5. DEMO (gif file): http://g.recordit.co/kzrtUat1eH.gif

1. Selenium webdriver (An headless web browser)
2. PhantomJS
   • Can be downloaded from http://phantomjs.org/download.html
   • The executable file MUST BE located in PATH (where Python Interpreter is located (virtualenv))
   • Necessary to obtain HTML codes of the website rendered by Javascript
3. BeautifulSoup (BS4)
4. matplotlib

1. Make sure the dependencies are installed properly.
2. Place vicemo_scraper.py, visualizedata.py, and main.py in the same directory.
3. Run main.py
   • NOTE: depending on your connection, it can take 15 - 30 seconds for the module to finish running.