A guide to web scraping in Python using Beautiful Soup

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 16, 2021 2:38 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Ayush Sharma
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What is web scraping, and why do I need it? The simple answer is this: Not every website has an API to fetch content. You might want to get recipes from your favorite cooking website or photos from a travel blog. Without an API, extracting the HTML, or scraping, might be the only way to get that content. I'm going to show you how to do this in Python.

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