Intro to BS4
- Akul Mehra -
What is Web Scraping ?
Consider the following HTML code
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Here's a paragraph of text!
</p>
<p>
Here's a second paragraph of text!
</p>
</body>
</html>
This is how a web page is rendered by browser
HTML DOM TREE
What is BeautifulSoup ?
This is Not!
What is BeautifulSoup ?
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
To Install via pip:
$ pip install beautifulsoup4
Creating a Scraper using BeautifulSoup
- Download the webpage using Requests library.
- Create a BeautifulSoup object of page.
- Scrape the required the results.
Questions ?