Web Scraping in Python Using Beautiful Soup Library
Jay M. Patel
Abstract
In this chapter, we’ll go through the basic building blocks of web pages such as HTML and CSS and demonstrate scraping structured information from them using popular Python libraries such as Beautiful Soup and lxml. Later, we’ll expand our knowledge and tackle issues that will make our scraper into a full-featured web crawler capable of fetching information from multiple web pages.
Topics & Concepts
Web crawlerPython (programming language)Scraper siteWorld Wide WebWeb pageComputer scienceWeb applicationInformation retrievalProgramming languageComputational Physics and Python Applications