Q: Can I convert a #WordPress website into a simple table with two lines of #Python code?A: Yes.It's better than crawling, because you get much more information this way. Takes a fraction of a fraction of the time.Go to blog_url/wp-json/, if the website enabled it, you should see the content as a JSON string.requests.get sends a GET request & the response object has a .json() method that converts JSON to a Python dict.pandas.json_normalize unpacks it as a DataFrame.Done.

Q: Can I convert a #WordPress website into a simple table with two lines of #Python code?
A: Yes.

It’s better than crawling, because you get much more information this way. Takes a fraction of a fraction of the time.

Go to blog_url/wp-json/, if the website enabled it, you should see the content as a JSON string.

requests.get sends a GET request & the response object has a .json() method that converts JSON to a Python dict.
pandas.json_normalize unpacks it as a DataFrame.

Done.

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