Web Scraping 101: Learn The Basics of Beautiful Soup 4 and Web Scraping with Python. Part 1

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Web Scraping 101: Learn The Basics of Beautiful Soup 4 and Web Scraping with Python. Part 1

In today's video I will be walking through an introduction to the Python package, Beautiful Soup 4.

Beautiful Soup is a MUST HAVE package for anyone interested in web scraping with python.
It provides a very easy to use method of parsing through web data, and is a great starting
point for more advanced automated web navigation and scraping.

Topics we will cover:

Where go to find more information, and look up functions and more information about how to use the specific package (Assuming it is well documented!).

---Beautiful Soup Documentation:

How to view/translate the source code for webpages as well as how to go back and forth between the visible web page and the underlying HTML to gain a better understanding of this process.

The stats website basketball-reference is what I will be using to demonstrate the capabilities of Beautiful Soup, specifically the player's per game stats for the 2019-2020 season. Link below.

[lukestechschulte]

Searching around for walk-through instructions like this on youtube for a while. Super glad I found your channel! BIG HELP

[garymichalske]

Hey Nick, I installed everything you showed in your Welcome to python video but when I try to run "soup" I get an error saying NameError: name 'soup' is not defined. Any idea?