Introduction to Web Scraping

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites. Python’s BeautifulSoup library makes it simple to parse and navigate HTML or XML documents.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use BeautifulSoup for web scraping.

Installing BeautifulSoup

To install BeautifulSoup and the required requests library, use the following commands:

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests

Once installed, you can import them in your Python scripts:

# Importing BeautifulSoup
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

print("BeautifulSoup imported successfully")