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Web Scraping with Python

Introduction to Web ScrapingIntroduction to Web Scraping

Welcome to the course! Today we will start exploring how Web Scrapping works. Web Scraping is a process that can be used to extract information from websites automatically. For example, compare prices on different platforms or collect data about stocks.

There are a lot of ways in Python to extract the data. Let's compare the most popular libraries for Web Scraping: Requests, Beautiful Soup, lxml, and Selenium.

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In this course, we will focus on the first two libraries. However, Selenium and lxml are extremely powerful tools:

  • Selenium supports work with JavaScript, a programming language that allows developers to populate fields and menus dynamically.
  • lxml allows the work with both HTML and XML files.

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Section 1.

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