This video provides an introduction to web scraping with Python and the Beautiful Soup library. Specifically, it covers:
-What is web scraping and examples of projects using it
-An example of web scraping Twitter handles from a college basketball webpage
-How to view page source, inspect, and read basic HTML elements to find the data you are looking for
-Using the requests and beautifulsoup4 libraries: https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
-Words of caution related to web scraping
This video is the eighteenth video in a multi-part series on getting started with the Python programming language. Next video in the series: • How to Access Data from the Twitter (...
Source code on Github: https://github.com/gsprint23/Python-D...