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How To Scrape Websites Using Python
Scrape web links
Python is a general purpose programming language that seems to be on the rise with Data Analytics / Science and Machine Learning. It has many capabilities do to its many libraries/packages. When doing Data Analytics / Science tasks, their will be times that you will want to use data from the internet. That data may only be available on a webpage, so for cases like this you will want to use a special technique called web scraping to gather the data to do your analysis. One very useful capability of Python is scraping data. Let’s get started scraping using Python3 and the library BeautifulSoup!
Step 0: Install Python version 3
Before we began you must have Python version 3 installed. You can download it here.
Step 1: Choose a website that you want to scrape .
I chose my BLOG, everythingcomputerscience.com/test/simpleHTML.html . We obviously need a website that has links we want to scrape.
