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==Rough notes==
*Get the data from httphttps://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/award/all*Built a Selenium Web Driver which is stored in *Does not work because there is a captcha that must be entered after selecting xls download Notes on build a Selenium Web Driver:*Make sure that you properly set the chromedriver path if you don't have it under root. For example: webdriver.Chrome("/Users/adriansmart/PycharmProjects/SeleniumTest/chromedriver")*Use driver.find_element_by_xpath to locate element on html page*To get xpath from html, first load the website*Right click on the page element you want the xpath and select inspect. This will launch the html inspector and highlight the relevant lines of code*Right click on what looks like the right piece of code and select "Copy xpath data"*Paste that stuff in your python script where it asks for a path, For example: driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='solr-print-dropdown-button']")
