Introduction to Web Scraping

Welcome to the course! Today, we will begin exploring how web scraping works.

There are numerous methods in python for extracting data. Let's compare the most popular libraries for web scraping: Requests, Beautiful Soup, lxml, and Selenium.

Throughout this course, our primary focus will be on the first two libraries. However, it's worth noting that selenium and lxml are incredibly powerful tools:

Selenium enables JavaScript support, a programming language that allows developers to interact with dynamic fields and menus;
lxml facilitates working with both HTML and XML files.

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Section 1. Chapter 1

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Course Content

Web Scraping with Python

1. Getting Acquainted with HTML

2. Decoding HTML with Beautiful Soup

What is Beautiful Soup?Navigating HTML Document Challenge: The BeautifulSoup Object Challenge: Iterating Over Lists Working with Specific Elements Working with Paragraph Elements

3. Working with Element Attributes in Beautiful Soup

Attributes and Contents of Element Challenge: Attributes Attributes and Contents of Multiple Elements Challenge: Text from HTML Elements Advanced Search Challenge: Find All