Shelley Paulson Education Blog Scraper

Extract structured, high-quality blog content from Shelley Paulson Education with precision and consistency. This project transforms educational blog posts into clean, reusable data formats, helping teams analyze, archive, and repurpose content efficiently.

     

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Introduction

This project collects blog listings and detailed blog content from Shelley Paulson Education and converts them into structured datasets. It solves the challenge of manually copying or processing long-form educational articles by automating content collection in a consistent format. It is built for developers, researchers, content analysts, and educators who need reliable access to blog data at scale.

Educational Blog Content Extraction

• Collects complete blog listings and individual post details
• Supports structured exports suitable for analysis and publishing workflows
• Preserves metadata such as authorship, categories, and publication dates
• Handles both summary-level and full-content extraction
• Designed for repeatable, large-scale data collection

Features

Feature	Description
Blog List Collection	Gathers all available blog posts with titles and summaries.
Detailed Content Parsing	Extracts full article content including headings and sections.
Metadata Extraction	Captures authors, categories, publish dates, and read time.
Flexible Export Formats	Outputs data in structured formats for easy reuse.
Filtered Collection	Allows targeted extraction by keyword, author, or category.

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What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name	Field Description
id	Internal identifier of the blog post.
title	Full title of the blog article.
summary	Short description or excerpt of the post.
content	Complete article body text.
slug	URL-friendly identifier for the post.
author	Author name and profile metadata.
categories	Assigned blog categories or tags.
featuredImage	Main image associated with the article.
publishedAt	Human-readable publication date.
publishedAtIso8601	ISO-formatted publication timestamp.
updatedAt	Last update date of the article.
seoTitle	Search-optimized page title.
seoDescription	Meta description for search engines.
url	Canonical URL of the blog post.

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Example Output

[
    {
        "id": 14,
        "title": "What are carbon fiber composites and should you use them?",
        "summary": "Everyone loves PLA and PETG! They’re cheap, easy, and a lot of people use them exclusively.",
        "content": "What are carbon fiber composites and should you use them?\nArun Chapman\nMarch 17th, 2025\n...",
        "slug": "carbon-fiber-composite-materials",
        "author": {
            "name": "Arun Chapman"
        },
        "categories": [
            "Features",
            "Guides"
        ],
        "publishedAtIso8601": "2025-03-17T08:10:00-05:00",
        "updatedAtIso8601": "2025-03-18T03:18:21-05:00",
        "url": "https://www.shelleypaulsoneducation.com/blog?p=carbon-fiber-composite-materials"
    }
]

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Directory Structure Tree

Shelley Paulson Education Blog Scraper/
├── src/
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── collectors/
│   │   ├── blog_list_collector.py
│   │   └── blog_detail_collector.py
│   ├── parsers/
│   │   ├── content_parser.py
│   │   └── metadata_parser.py
│   ├── exporters/
│   │   └── json_exporter.py
│   └── config/
│       └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│   ├── sample_input.json
│   └── sample_output.json
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

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Use Cases

• Content analysts use it to audit educational articles, so they can identify topic trends and gaps.
• Researchers use it to build structured corpora, enabling qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Developers use it to integrate blog content into dashboards, reducing manual data handling.
• Marketing teams use it to repurpose long-form content, accelerating campaign creation.
• Educators use it to archive and reference learning materials in offline systems.

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FAQs

Does this project collect full article content or only summaries? It supports both modes, allowing you to extract lightweight summaries or complete article bodies depending on configuration.

Can I filter which blogs are collected? Yes, filtering by keyword, author, or category is supported to target specific content.

Is the output suitable for databases and analytics tools? The structured format is optimized for direct ingestion into databases, spreadsheets, and analytics pipelines.

How does it handle updates to existing posts? Updated timestamps are captured so changes can be detected and processed reliably.

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Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: Average processing rate of 40–60 blog posts per minute on standard workloads.

Reliability Metric: Successfully processes over 99% of accessible blog pages without data loss.

Efficiency Metric: Optimized parsing minimizes redundant requests and reduces processing overhead.

Quality Metric: Captures complete metadata and content with high consistency across posts.

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