Web scraping

To develop a web scraping tool, we can use libraries such as beautifulsoup and scrapy. Here, I'm giving some of the basic code for web scraping.

Take a look at the code snippet in Figure 2.6, which is used to develop a basic web scraper using beautifulsoup:

Figure 2.6: Basic web scraper tool using beautifulsoup

The following Figure 2.7 demonstrates the output:

Figure 2.7: Output of basic web scraper using beautifulsoup

You can find the installation guide for beautifulsoup and scrapy at this link:

https://github.com/jalajthanaki/NLPython/blob/master/ch2/Chapter_2_Installation_Commands.txt.

You can find the code at this link:

https://github.com/jalajthanaki/NLPython/blob/master/ch2/2_2_Basic_webscraping_byusing_beautifulsuop.py.

If you get any warning while running the script, it will be fine; don't worry about warnings.

Now, let's do some web scraping...