Forum & Social Media Data, Custom Data Scraper

The Food Trucks Association of Canada (FTAC) seeks to dive deep into the insights and prevalent issues of the food truck industry, exploring public forums and online communities where operators gather (such as Facebook, reddit, etc.). The goal of this project is to create a custom data scraping program in Python, as to collect large sets of data from shortlisted group forums. This scraper will be used as a pivotal tool, intended to automate and streamline the intricate data extraction process from multiple online forums. Thereby providing a robust dataset for FTAC to use in our existing data projects.