scrapeAbilitiesData

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

# Fetch "Pokémon"-ability information from PokemonDB
URL = "https://pokemondb.net/ability"
response = requests.get(URL)

# Initialize parser
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

# Find data-table storing all abilities along with their descriptions
table = soup.find(attrs={"class" : "data-table"})

# Store all rows of table in a list, skip header
rows = table.find_all("tr")[1:]

# Iterate through all rows, find all cells, store their text contents as a list entry
entries = [[entry.text for entry in row.find_all("td")] for row in rows]


# Create dataframe from 2d-array "entries"
df = pd.DataFrame(entries, columns=["Name", "Pokémon", "Description", "Generation"])

# Drop columns "Pokémon" and "Generation"
df.drop(["Pokémon", "Generation"], axis=1, inplace=True)

# Fill out missing description entry of ability "Quick Draw"
df.Description.iloc[185] = "Enables the Pokémon to move first occasionally."


df.to_csv("dataClean/Abilities.csv")