Web Scraping in Python
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Web scraping is a handy yet an often overlook aspect of data work. Using BeautifulSoup and preliminary knowledge of HTML, we can automate information extraction tasks from many webpages. In this tutorial we discuss the basics of web scraping and build python programs to extract and answer questions by scraping the web.
I have replicated and modified this talk on multiple occasions for different audiences. In general, check out the [Slides] [Github Repo]