Web Scraping in Python using Beautiful Soup
Web Scraping in Python using Beautiful Soup Web scraping refers to the automatic process of extracting data from different websites. One of the best libraries in Python for this task is BeautifulSoup, which is used for crawling and extracting data from HTML and XML pages. Step1: Installing: pip install requests beautifulsoup4 (We have it installed already) Step2: Importing: Import the BeautifulSoup module in your script Step 3: Using: To scrape an HTML page with the BeautifulSoup library in Python and extract data from the HTML, we can either use an HTML file stored on our computer or fetch the HTML code of a webpage using the requests module in Python. We previously discussed the requests module in a separate post. To use the BeautifulSoup library in Python, we can either work with a local HTML file or fetch the HTML of a webpage. we create a BeautifulSoup object (usually named soup), which allows us to use its methods to extract and scrape the data we need from the page....