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Web Scraping with Python 🐍 (full video linked) #webscraping #python #data #fyp #foryoupage

21 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment of the tutorial, the presenter demonstrates how to perform a basic web scrape using Python. First, the `requests` library is used to send an HTTP GET request to a target website, retrieving the raw HTML content. The retrieved HTML is then passed to `BeautifulSoup`, which parses and prettifies the markup, making it readable and easier to inspect. The speaker emphasizes that all the data needed for extraction resides within this HTML and that the next step involves identifying the outermost HTML element that encloses the desired information, setting the stage for targeted data extraction.

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And then click enter, and boom, voilà, you have all this information. So what it did, it went to that, it went to this site and got there, used the using request, it got all the HTML. And here we're just using BeautifulSoup to prettify the HTML so that it looks nice for our eyes, it's not jumbled up or anything. So this is how it looks. So this is all the HTML that we need, and all the information that we need to extract or scrape are all in here. So we just have to figure out how to navigate to where And, you know, extract it in a nice way. So that covers that. So the next step is we need to find the outermost element that contains the extended focus.