By Andy Brown

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This tutorial covers all aspects of extracting data from websites using Python: from the ethics and legality of web scraping, via the structure of a web page's document object model through to using the Python requests and BeautifulSoup modules to extract meaning from HTML.

Chapters
00:00 Topic list
02:03 Problems you may encounter
06:52 Our example HTML
08:20 The Document Object Model (DOM)
11:08 HTML tags and attributes
12:52 Element ids and class names (CSS)
18:37 Getting HTML from a website (requests module)
22:26 Getting HTML from a file
23:45 Getting started with BeautifulSoup
27:18 Chaining elements
30:43 Navigable strings
33:54 Navigating the DOM
37:52 Finding elements
46:11 Using CSS selectors

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