The incredible amount of data on the Internet is a rich resource for any field of research or personal interest. To effectively harvest that data, you’ll need to become skilled at web scraping. The Python libraries requests and Beautiful Soup are powerful tools for the job. If you like to learn with hands-on examples and you have a basic understanding of Python and HTML, then this tutorial is for you.
In this video, I will explain:

  1. Understand the libraries that need to be installed using pip-install.
  2. Extract Body of the page using Beautiful Soup Library.
  3. Extract text filtered through filter criteria.
  4. Understand absolute vs relative URLs and extract them.
  5. Validating the output according to our business case.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to leave a comment below.

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Web Scraping using Python Beautiful Soup
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