Introduction to Web Scraping

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using programming languages.

Installing Required Libraries

You can install the required libraries using pip:

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests

Sending HTTP Requests

You can send HTTP requests to a website using the Requests library.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# send a GET request
url = 'https://www.example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
# parse the HTML content
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
print(soup.title.text)

Extracting Data

You can extract data from the parsed HTML content using various methods.

# find all links on the page
links = soup.find_all('a')
for link in links:
    print(link.get('href'))