Advanced Web Scraping Tutorial! (w/ Python Beautiful Soup Library)

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In this video, we're diving into advanced web scraping techniques with Python. If you haven't seen my overview of the Beautiful Soup library, check it out first for some foundational knowledge. Web scraping is a highly valuable skill, especially for freelance work. This tutorial will take you through sophisticated scraping methods, using Walmart as an example.

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In this video, we'll cover:
- Setting up and understanding the HTML structure of a web page
- Extracting data using Beautiful Soup and handling dynamic content
- Implementing headers to avoid detection
- Parsing JSON data for efficient scraping
- Using proxies with Bright Data to bypass IP blocking
- Error handling and retries in scraping
- Storing scraped data and handling multiple search queries

If you need help getting started with web scraping, check out my original tutorial on BeautifulSoup:

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Video Timeline!
0:00 - Intro & Overview
1:30 - Identifying HTML Structure for Scraping (from Walmart)
7:22 - Implementing modified request headers to avoid detection
6:10 - Handling Dynamic Content
8:00 - Implementing Modified Request Headers to Avoid Detection (look more human when scraping)
9:30 - Parsing Complicated JSON Data (Using LLMs to help)
15:28 - Extending our Code to Collect Info on Many Products (Automating Search)
24:45 - Improving our Code (avoiding duplicates, multiple search terms, using a queue, etc.)
27:20 - Setting Up Proxies with Bright Data (Get around IP Address blocks)
36:35 - Error Handling and Retries
39:36 - Automating actions on pages with Selenium
41:42 - Conclusion & Next Steps

I hope you find this tutorial useful. If you did, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel for more tutorials. Let me know in the comments how you plan to use these web scraping techniques in your projects. Enjoy scraping!

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[jonpounds]

Before this I knew nothing. Now I am expert. Thanks Keith Galli!

[sonic]

I’m learning so I can automate my job and be more effective. Thanks for sharing.

[areejkhalid]

I am following your video but at @ 9:25 i get None.

[Technology-sdbs]

Instead of using the link directly, how can we insert text in the search field and then start scraping?

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realistic! using ai and all the online tools that can help.. genuine tutorial :) thanks!!

[ahmedbadal]

make a video of how to get job with web scraping please i just asked my self why learn web scraping like what would you do with it so ? to make money with it >

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[syedabbas-ce]

ERROR: JSException or error 503 how to deal with them ?

[MrTaken-tlbw]

Ok this cool and all but can you scrape a React or any other javascritp frontend website without using selenium?

[divyv]

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[moe]

You accidentally showed the username and password at 33:48

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[thabelangncube]

I am following through your code, @9:22, when I print, it returns none, what could be the problem?