Python Web Scraping BeautifulSoup - News Website Scraping

Web scraping is a technique to extract data from the webpage using a computer program. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to collect news links and titles from a newspaper website for educational purposes. Check out the full Web Scraping in Python Course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/web-scraping-in-python/ 💪Code: https://github.com/mahmudahsan/webscraping 📷 My Tools and Books: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mahmudahsan 🔥 My Website: http://thinkdiff.net 🎯 My Mobile Apps: http://ithinkdiff.net During the journey, we will learn about Python’s built-in URLLIB library to connect the website and retrieve data and a third party BeautifulSoup library to parse HTML data so that we can filter and take out our target links. We will also use a built-in logging library to write errors in a text file if any error happens during the program runs. The main library for web scraping is designed using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) style. If you’re new to Python you can check my other video tutorial: Learn Python Programming 🔥 Full Course ✌️ Absolute Beginners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbgjR_tL2k Python is an interpreted high-level language for general-purpose programming. It was initiated by Guido Van Rossum and first released in 1991. It is a duck type language, easy to understand, and now very popular in both the academic and professional worlds. Using Python one can write a simple script to web app development. Also in machine learning or in deep learning python is very popular as it has some outstanding open source libraries. Python 3 has a built-in IDLE – Interactive Development Environment installed automatically. If you run it you can see the following window. At the top left, you can see the version number installed, here we are seeing Python 3.7 Web scraping is a technique to extract data from the webpage using a computer program. Python is a very popular language for web scraping. Python’s built-in urllib library to connect website and retrieve data and a third party BeautifulSoup library to parse HTML data are a very popular combination of python web scraping. http://bit.ly/2qzJN8x Sometimes we also want to scrap some webpage’s information but which is fully loaded by the JavaScript framework. In normal scraping techniques, it’s not possible to scrape data as the data is loaded lazily. We can solve both webpage testing and dynamic web page scraping by running JavaScript code using the Selenium library. http://bit.ly/2PLLlud #python_web_scraping #python #beginners