ucsky / kick-off-web-scraping-python-selenium-beautifulsoup

A tutorial-based introduction to web scraping with Python.

Wisdomic Panda

Hold the Vision, Trust the Process.

Beginner's guide to Web Scraping using Beautifulsoap, Selenium and python!

... a technique used for extracting data from web/websites.

All Minds Meet’ 2017.

☕ Ingredients:

• python
• selenium
• PhantomJS
• beautifulsoap
• requests
• pandas
• tabulate
• Spyder IDE
• Ubuntu 16.4 LTS

🚧 Table of Contents:

1. Setup your local environment: Cookbook

❗ I run on Mac OS/Ubuntu so you might have to slightly modify the code to make it work in your env.

2. Go through this for quick insights: Handbook

3. Get hands on: Kick-off

4. Examples:

   4.1 Glassdoor_jobs

   4.2 Pablo_quotes

   4.3 Premier_League_score_table

   4.4 Bhagavad Gita Lessons

   4.5 Akbar_Birbal_Stories

Hey Buddy!

This repository explains the rationale for web scraping in python. I have implemented few basic examples using selenium, have a dekko at it! This repo covers approximately 1% of the entire python web scraping. My motive is to get you familiar with the tools that python provides if you forsee your career as a Data Engineer. If you have any suggestions for more commands that should be on this page, let me know or consider submitting a pull request so others can benefit from your work. Thank you very much for reaching out! Please follow if you find it handy and hit ⭐ to get more kick-off repo updates.

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