Web scraping and parsing with Beautiful Soup & Python Introduction p.1

Welcome to a tutorial on web scraping with Beautiful Soup 4. Beautiful Soup is a Python library aimed at helping programmers i9.ytimg.com/vi/aIPqt-OdmS0/0.jpg?sqp=CMTBuMAF&rs=… are trying to scrape data from websites. To use beautiful soup, you need to install it: $ pip install beautifulsoup4. Beautiful Soup also relies on a parser, the default is lxml. You may already have it, but you should check (open IDLE and attempt to import lxml). If not, do: $ pip install lxml or $ apt-get install python-lxml. To begin, we need HTML. I have created an example page for us to work with: pythonprogramming.net/parsememcparseface/ Tutorial code: pythonprogramming.net/introduction-scraping-parsin… Beautiful Soup 4 documentation: www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ pythonprogramming.net/ twitter.com/sentdex www.facebook.com/pythonprogramming.net/ plus.google.com/+sentdex

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