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- Intro & Video Overview

- What is web scraping?

- Introduction to HTML

Using the beautiful soup library

- Loading in a webpage requests library

- Starting to scrape

- find & find_all methods

- Finding specific text/strings in our HTML regex

- Select method CSS path selections

- Grabbing the string/text from an HTML element

- Getting a property of HTML element href, src, id, class, etc

- Code navigation parents, children, siblings

Let’s practice our skills!

- Exercise #1: Grab all social links on webpage in 3 different ways

- Exercise #2: Scrape an HTML table into a Pandas Dataframe

- Exercise #3: Grab all fun facts that contain the word “is”

- Exercise #4: Use beautiful soup to help download an image from a webpage

- Exercise #5: Solve the mystery challenge!!!

Description:

Learn web scraping in Python using the Beautiful Soup library in this comprehensive tutorial video. Start with an introduction to HTML, CSS, and web scraping basics before diving into the fundamentals of Beautiful Soup. Master essential commands like find and find_all, learn to extract strings from HTML elements, and explore CSS selectors. Practice your skills through hands-on exercises, including scraping links, extracting tables into Pandas DataFrames, and downloading web images. Gain practical experience in navigating HTML structure, working with regular expressions, and solving real-world web scraping challenges.

Comprehensive Python Beautiful Soup Web Scraping Tutorial - Find-Find All, CSS Select, Scrape Table

Keith Galli

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