
Web Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
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Web scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites automatically using the software. It’s an extremely important tool for gathering information from the web and has many applications in machine learning-based data analysis. Python is a popular programming language for web scraping because of its easy-to-use libraries and tools. In this tutorial, we will explore how to get started with Python for web scraping step by step.
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