Web Scraping Yelp, Part 1: mining reviews with Pyhton using Beautifulsoup

Author(s): Michelangiolo Mazzeschi

Originally published on Towards AI.

Limitations of web scraping

Web scraping is one of my favorite challenges to face when using python. Web scraping is a technique that allows programmers to connect to a website using code and then extract the HTML and javascript hosted on the website. The code is then analyzed with the use of some libraries that can facilitate the extraction of the information we want.

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The advantage of using web scraping through a programming language like python is that we are not limited to the extraction of information from a single page, but if the website's logic is consistent enough we… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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