Python Webscraping for Beginners

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In this tutorial, we'll be taking a deep dive into web scraping and how you can extract valuable information from news websites using Python and the BeautifulSoup library. We'll walk you through each step, starting from installing the necessary packages, understanding the basics of HTML structure, all the way to writing an effective and efficient Python script. By the end of this video, you'll be proficient in scraping data from various news websites, enabling you to analyze and utilize the data for your needs.

We'll cover:
✅ Setting up your Python environment for web scraping
✅ Understanding the structure of a webpage
✅ How to use BeautifulSoup to parse HTML
✅ Writing a Python script to extract data from news websites
✅ Best practices and how to respect a website's robots.txt rules
✅ Exploring ways to clean and use your newly scraped data

GitHub Code - https://github.com/airscholar/PunchScraper

Beautifulsoup Documentation - https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

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