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Web Scraping for Beginners

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TalkinSpanishat PyConES 2018 · 2018-10-05..10-07· [python]

speaker

name:Sara Rodríguez
linkedin:sararodriguezlopez

resources

video:https://youtu.be/zoYEKL3-Gq0
slides:none on file

summary

Introduces web scraping using Python tools: teaches Beautiful Soup for parsing HTML into structured tables, and gives an introductory look at Selenium for interacting with browsers to scrape dynamic content. Focuses on practical techniques for extracting data when no API is available.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction to scraping
  2. 2:15Scraping versus crawling
  3. 5:48Tools and libraries
  4. 7:11Extracting with BeautifulSoup
  5. 11:51Structured data and cleaning
  6. 12:12Crawling with Selenium
  7. 18:17Summary

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