Day 2 - Chai Time Automation Series
?? Web Scraping Basics
In today's article, let's explore web scraping, a technique for extracting data from websites. This can be useful for gathering information, tracking changes, or automating data entry tasks. We'll be using Beautiful Soup, a popular Python library for web scraping.
Before we start, make sure you have the following Python packages installed:
pip install beautifulsoup
pip install requests4
Let's begin with a simple example: fetching the title of a web page and extracting specific elements. Here's a complete code snippet that demonstrates how to achieve this:
In this example, we first import the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries. We then send an HTTP GET request to the specified URL and create a BeautifulSoup object with the response's content. Finally, we extract the title of the page, print it, and find all the links on the page and print their URLs.
Stay tuned for the next article, where we'll dive deeper into web scraping and learn more advanced techniques to extract information from websites.