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Python Web Scraping Made Simple: Building a Basic Web Scraper

1. Web Scraping

IntroductionThe Requests LibraryParse the HTML Content Using BeautifulSoupExtract the Desired AttributeStore Scraped Data Into a Pandas DataFrameInclude Other Informations in the Scraping ProcessRegular Expressions

Python Web Scraping Made Simple: Building a Basic Web Scraper

Include Other Informations in the Scraping ProcessInclude 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

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

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