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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

You're reading from Getting Started with Beautiful Soup Learn how to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module. This practical, hands-on guide covers everything you need to know to get a head start in website scraping.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783289554

Length 130 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

BeautifulSoup

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Vineeth G Nair

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing Beautiful Soup FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating a BeautifulSoup Object

3. Search Using Beautiful Soup

4. Navigation Using Beautiful Soup

5. Modifying Content Using Beautiful Soup

6. Encoding Support in Beautiful Soup

7. Output in Beautiful Soup

8. Creating a Web Scraper

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we created a sample scraper using Beautiful Soup. We used the search and navigation methods of Beautiful Soup to get information from packtpub.com, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

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Authors (1)

Vineeth G Nair

Vineeth G Nair

Vineeth G. Nair completed his bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala. He is currently working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Applications Engineer. He developed an interest in Python during his college days and began working as a freelance programmer. This led him to work on several web scraping projects using Beautiful Soup. It helped him gain a fair level of mastery on the technology and a good reputation in the freelance arena. He can be reached at vineethgnair.mec@gmail.com. You can visit his website at www.kochi-coders.com.

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