Python Web Scraping Fundamentals by BeautifulSoup 🧐

Python is a very popular language to write web scraping script. In this demo we will discuss very basics of a Python program which will connect a website programmatically, collect data and parsed to gather the required data. We will be using Python's built-in library and a third party library named BeautifulSoup. Checkout the full Web Scraping in Python Course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/web-scraping-in-python/ বাংলায় ওয়েব স্ক্র‍্যাপিং: https://bit.ly/2KOp6RR 😍 Subscribe & Follow Me 😍 🔔 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mahmudahsan ✅ Github: https://github.com/mahmudahsan ✍️ Website: http://thinkdiff.net 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 academic and professional world. Using Python one can write 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 webpage using 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 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 JavaScript framework. In normal scraping techniques it’s not possible to scrap data as the data is loaded lazily. We can solve both webpage testing and dynamic web page scraping by running JavaScript code using Selenium library. http://bit.ly/2PLLlud #python_web_scraping #python #beginners