Why Python (for web scraping)?

Python is a popular programming language that is used to code various types of applications, from simple scripts to software development, ML/AI algorithms, and CLI/GUI apps, and also to create web applications. Python’s simple Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) syntax is very readable, which allows developers to write code in not many lines and work on different platforms (which means Python is platform independent), which makes it the number-one choice among programming languages.

Python is a buzzword in today’s programming domain. Quite a lot of tools and web applications are produced and managed using Python, which is compatible with small and large apps and is supplied with adequate and up-to-date libraries by its global developer audience.

Figure 2.1 (taken from https://www.python.org) shows Success Stories and Use Python for… information for various types of applications:

Figure 2.1: Python success...