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Web scraping

concept · part of Direct data collection

The practice of extracting data from websites using automated tools.

Inside Web scraping (3)

BeautifulSoup — A Python library for parsing HTML and extracting data from web pages.
HTML — HyperText Markup Language, the standard language for creating web pages.
requests — A Python library for sending HTTP requests, used to fetch web page content.

Connections

Uses requests
Uses BeautifulSoup
Uses pandas
Alternative to APIs
Related to requests
Related to BeautifulSoup
Related to Collection

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