Arte Útil Scraper

About the Project

This software scrapes the Arte Útil archive.

Arte Útil is a project that has inspired Radical Data's work, showing the possibilities of art as a tool within society. As the website hosting the archive has a limited number of possible interactions, we wanted an easier way to explore the projects in the archive.

We built this scraper to collect all of the projects' data into a spreadsheet and download all of the images.

Getting Started

1. Install Python
2. Install pandas and lxml
3. Navigate to this folder: cd ./arte-util-scraper
4. Run python scrape-archive.py

Other thoughts

Though I'm sure we would have done it anyway, Arte Útil encourages people to create alternative presentations of the Archive.

Users are invited to download, print and build their own archive. Source