README.md

Tax lien certificate states and tax deed states

This script fetches the data from the following lists on TedThomas.com, parses the webpages, and writes the data in Excel workbook (XLSX), CSV, JSON, and markdown table format.

• The Essential List of Tax Lien Certificate States:

  • https://tedthomas.com/faqs/tax-lien-certificate-states/

• Ted Thomas Complete List of Tax Deed States:

  • https://tedthomas.com/faqs/tax-deed-states/

See the "build" directory for the output.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+

Installation

pip install requests beautifulsoup4 py-markdown-table openpyxl

Usage

python tax_sale_states.py

Example

python tax_sale_states.py

Building "Tax lien certificate states"...
    Fetching data... Done.
    Writing data... Done.
    Creating workbook... Done.
    Writing workbook... Done.
    Writing CSV... Done.
    Writing JSON... Done.
    Writing markdown... Done.

Building "Tax deed states"...
    Fetching data... Done.
    Writing data... Done.
    Creating workbook... Done.
    Writing workbook... Done.
    Writing CSV... Done.
    Writing JSON... Done.
    Writing markdown... Done.

The "build" directory contains the written files.

The "data" directory contains the HTML source files.