Okay, here’s my attempt at writing a blog post in the style you described, focusing on the title “phoenix open leaderboard”:
Alright, so I wanted to mess around with getting the Phoenix Open leaderboard. I’m not a huge golf guy, but I figured it would be a fun little project to try and pull that data somehow. First thing I did was just a simple search, nothing fancy. I typed in, you know, “phoenix open leaderboard” into the search bar.
I figured I check a couple different pages to see the data. The layout was pretty standard, I guess. Table with the player’s name, their score, what round they were on, all that stuff.
Digging a Bit Deeper
After viewing the data in the table I thought to myself, “Hey, it’s all right there in a table!”. I went and viewed the page source.
I used inspect element to view the HTML to see if the table had any convenient IDs or classes that I could use to target it for scraping. I also inspected the network traffic to see how the browser was fetching the leaderboard data to find a way to get this done.
I am not including specific details, since they do not really help with conveying what I did.
I noticed that the page’s HTML had the table data embedded. And I was able to see all the data using inspect element with the table element.
Putting it Together
After checking out a few more things in the source code and network tab, I realized, getting at this data isn’t going to be super complicated. The process I took in detail helped me reach my goal
