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Webscraping data is not encoded correctly in CSV

I’m using the below code to scrape a website and export the data to CSV. It works well except that the title and summary fields are not encoded correctly in the CSV. It’s showing apostroshes as ’ for instance.

Scraping site renders an empty CSV

This site (https://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/all-reports-and-publications/) lists out individual reports and I’m trying to scrape them using python/BS.

Python scraping code is producing an empty CSV

This website (https://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/all-reports-and-publications/) posts new government reports. I’m trying to write python/BS code to scrape the title of each new report (i.e. “Washington Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: 2023 Inspection”) and drop them all into a CSV.

Python code to scrape Greyhound results from https://www.gbgb.org.uk/

I am using the GBGB site to download the full greyhound results for a certain track. I am using the Python code below to get the full result for each day. The code below downloads the full-day results from Crayford for each given day (in the example code below I am downloading the results from the 25th of May to the 2nd of June. Each day where there is a meeting in Crayford has a separate meeting and raceID for example in the code below 1st June meeting = 411583 and race id = 1042517. As you can see if I want to download, for example, 3 months of data, I have to individually specify the meeting ID and race ID in the URL as a separate line which is timeconsuming.