Emmy Award winners

Question

I'm looking for nominees and winners of the Emmys, but haven't found anything more structured than a Wikipedia article:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Primetime_Emmy_Award_winners

And a scraping-friendly list on the Emmys' website:

• http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search

I've checked the IMDb FTP dump but didn't found any award data. I tried Wolfram Alpha (as described here); it shows only the Oscars.

Is there a machine-readable list of Emmys or only scraping can help?

Answer 1

The dataset is not available, it could be useful in several projects and this Sunday evening was boring: three good reasons to scrape this site.

Here is the file.

It contains the nominees and the winners from 1970^* to 2016 (two sheets). Before merging both, I would prefer that someone take a look at it to check the data quality.

^{* I wonder why the scraper stopped in 1970, since the site contains information until 1949}

Answer 2

I'm an Emmy voter, an Open Data nerd, and a web developer -- and I don't know of a source. Guess you're going to have to scrape the data, sorry.

Answer 3

If you are going to (have to) scrape this, take a look at OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine). In their second video tutorial they describe how to convert and massage a Wikipedia list.

The data on your Wikipedia page is a table, not a list, so it will be more complicated (especially, you'll have to deal with the different colspans).