Web Scraping Practice: Intro to Web Scraping With Python
This is a preview of the video course, "Exercises Course: Introduction to Web Scraping With Python." Web scraping is the process of collecting and parsing raw data from the Web, and the Python community has come up with some pretty powerful web scraping tools.
The Internet hosts the greatest source of information on the planet. Many disciplines, such as data science, business intelligence, and investigative reporting, can benefit enormously from collecting and analyzing data from websites.
This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here:
https://realpython.com/courses/exerci...
The rest of the course covers:
Using powerful scraping libraries of Beautiful Soup and Mechanical Soup
Parsing website data using string methods and regular expressions
Parsing website data using an HTML parser
Interacting with forms and other website components