Python web scraping tutorial - Intermediate Python projects

Welcome to Python web scraping tutorial. Web scraping is a powerful concept with endless opportunities. Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract content and data from a website. How to use the extracted content is up to you. Web scraping is used for contact scraping, and as a component of applications used for web indexing, web mining and data mining, online price change monitoring and price comparison, product review scraping (to watch the competition), gathering real estate listings, weather data monitoring, website change detection, research, tracking online presence and reputation, web mashup and, web data integration.

This is a python web scraping tutorial. In this video, we're building a simple web scraper in python for extracting tags from YouTube videos. YouTube videos have tags which is one of the ways that YouTube identifies what kind of category, a particular video belongs to.

In this simple web scraper, we use Python's requests package to extract content from YouTube video URL using a GET request. This content is parsed using the html module from the lxml package. This package is used to parse the HTML DOM tree of the YouTube video page and extract the meta tag information having the keywords or video tags. Web scraping or data scraping using python can be a very powerful addition to your skillset.

For viewers looking forward to an additional challenge, try creating a website scraper on an Amazon product for Online price change monitoring. Enjoy building your website scrapers using Python. Let me know in the comments if you have any queries, or if you need you can message me @fncoder on Instagram.

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[theunspokenverse]

Really Informative.. Thanks for the video.

[SelectorsHub]

Very helpful tutorial. You can try SelectorsHub to write and generate xpath. SelectorsHub is a Free browser extension and highly recommended by all trainers. Thank you.