Learn Web Scraping with Python: A Beginner's Guide

Are you curious about web scraping and how to extract data from websites? In this beginner-friendly tutorial, Codecademy community member and Cybersecurity Professor Tobin Shields walks you through the essentials of web scraping with Python. You'll learn: • How to use Beautiful Soup for parsing HTML. • The basics of automating web page navigation. • How to collect data efficiently with Python’s requests library. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid foundation in web scraping and know how to start transforming websites into data sources. Plus, enjoy working with real-world examples like xkcd comics! Whether you're new to Python or looking to explore web scraping for your projects, this is the perfect place to start. Learn Python 3: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python-3?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social How to install BS4 & Requests: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BvOd6GvB8NAIOVl597UWFouoZe0Cps6u/view?usp=drive_link Key Skills For Web Scraping: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UiAGxVfFepCHf5k2RuWoAZBsEoIswmHj/view?usp=sharing Automate The Boring Stuff Book: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ Link to code from Workshop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k3GkbUQbY-IkHhQXKxhP4nLpuFBvKa39/view?usp=sharing #WebScraping #PythonForBeginners #BeautifulSoup #DataExtraction - - - - - Join the millions learning to code with Codecademy. Learn to code: https://www.codecademy.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social Check out our full course catalog: https://www.codecademy.com/catalog?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social