/intro_to_webscraping

An introduction to web scraping using the Python requests and BeautifulSoup libraries.

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Intro to Web Scraping

A code along workshop with Flatiron School.

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The contents of this notebook were first developed by Joél Collins, and utilizes the Quotes to Scrape website to demonstrate basic web scraping in Python.

Workshop Goals:

  1. Retreive the HTML of a webpage with the requests library.
  2. Introduction to the tree structure of HTML.
  3. Use the inspect tool to sift through the HTML.
  4. Parse HTML with the BeautifulSoup library.
  5. Store data in a csv file using the Pandas library.

Workshop dates:

  • 07/10/20