The internet is an absolutely massive source of data — data that we can access using web scraping and Python!

In fact, web scraping is often the only way we can access data. There is a lot of information out there that isn’t available in convenient CSV exports or easy-to-connect APIs. And websites themselves are often valuable sources of data — consider, for example, the kinds of analysis you could do if you could download every post on a web forum.

To access those sorts of on-page datasets, we’ll have to use web scraping.

Don’t worry if you’re still a total beginner!

In this tutorial we’re going to cover how to do web scraping with Python from scratch, starting with some answers to frequently-asked questions.

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