Building a Web Scraper with BeautifulSoup in Python

Introduction to Web Scraping

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using a program.

Installing BeautifulSoup

You can install BeautifulSoup using pip.

pip install beautifulsoup4

Basic Web Scraping

You can use BeautifulSoup to extract data from a website.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'http://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
print(soup.title.text)

Extracting Data

You can extract specific data from a website using BeautifulSoup.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'http://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
links = soup.find_all('a')
for link in links:
    print(link.get('href'))