Web Scraping Using Python: Stock Market Example

Author(s): Onur Okyol

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Websites are mostly built with HTML or XML These markup languages go in a certain order. The process of extracting data from this layout is called data scraping. In some sources, it can be referred to as web harvest or web extraction.

Why Do We Scrape Data?

There are many reasons for this. The main goal is to find, edit, and make data that will benefit us from a website. If we need to do this continuously, then we need to automate the data scraping.

Steps to Scrape Data

It’s very important that we determine our purpose… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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