How do I go about web scraping data from a website below to find specific case details?
Here are the manual steps to find case details:
- Navigate to https://www.claytoncountyga.gov/government/courts/court-case-inquiry/
- There seems to be possibly a JavaScript-loaded form with buttons/inputs to take your further to case details – need to select Name Search to search for cases by Last Name – click it
- Then a new screen appears within the same element of (2) allowing user to select from drop down court (eg, Magistrate Court) and free form text input to enter Last Name and First Name (Smith John).
- Clicking submit takes you to all the cases
- Clicking the case number on one of the rows in the table populated within the same Element as all prior steps allows you to view case details – I’d like to scrape data from this page.
Because the inner form seems encapsulated (I’m guessing with Javascript), I can’t see the HTML elements that render after each input is provided. How can i automate this with Python?