Automating Data Collection from Web Sources

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Automating Data Collection from Web Sources

Automating Data Collection from Web Sources

Introduction The Requests Library Parse the HTML Content Using BeautifulSoup Extract the Desired Attribute Store Scraped Data Into a Pandas DataFrame Include Other Informations in the Scraping Process Regular Expressions

Include Other Informations in the Scraping Process

Now that we have understood how the scraping process works let's finish the job and also include the missing information in our process!

Task

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Import pandas and initialize an empty df.
Create a for loop to iterate over all tags.
Scrape the country name, the capital city, population, and area.
Append the scraped values in the df.

Solution

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