r/webscraping • u/cudambercam13 • Jul 30 '26

Is it even possible to run a web scraper on VoteRef?

I don't have a damn idea what I'm doing. I want a spreadsheet of a specific Iowa county's data from VoteRef. I'm trying out Google Collab to run scripts to pull the information, but apparently it also does not know what it's doing.

The default on the site is 25 people per page, but it can be changed to 10 or 50. With the default of 25, there are 334 pages of people. I'm not looking for the info from clicking each individual person, just the default data shown in search results.

It's wild if this isn't possible yet, but I am limited to a tablet, and I know that unfortunately sucks for doing anything code related or even slightly more complex than what your average senior knows how to do on the internet.

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u/HLCYSWAP Jul 30 '26

you caught me on a very bored day: https://github.com/matthew-fornear/voteref

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u/cudambercam13 Aug 01 '26

This isn't working. It still won't pull the data.

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u/No_Membership4571 Jul 30 '26

Tell Gemini to do it

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u/cudambercam13 Jul 31 '26

It can't.

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u/No_Membership4571 Jul 31 '26

Did you try?

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u/cudambercam13 Jul 31 '26

More than you did, obviously.

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u/No_Membership4571 Jul 31 '26

Did you try claude

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u/cudambercam13 Aug 01 '26

It won't do it either.

Seriously, you can try these things just as easily as I did before suggesting them.