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Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting data from websites using HTTP requests and involves two steps: fetching web pages using an HTTP library like Requests and then extracting data from the pages using a parsing library like BeautifulSoup. Requests simplifies making HTTP requests and BeautifulSoup parses responses to extract desired information in an easily understandable format.

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Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting data from websites using HTTP requests and involves two steps: fetching web pages using an HTTP library like Requests and then extracting data from the pages using a parsing library like BeautifulSoup. Requests simplifies making HTTP requests and BeautifulSoup parses responses to extract desired information in an easily understandable format.

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Web Scraping

● Web Scraping is the process of automatically mining, collecting or extracting data from
Websites using the HTTP protocol

● Web Scraping is a 2-step process:


- Fetching or downloading the web page from the server using the HTTP protocol
(Requests library)
- Extracting data from the web page (BeautifulSoup library)

● Requests is a Python HTTP library and its goal is to make HTTP requests simpler and
more human-friendly

● BeautifulSoup is Python library (module) that parses the web page, extracts the desired
information and presents it in a format we can easily make sense of

Master Python Programming


By Andrei Dumitrescu

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