How to create a simple web scraper using Python

In this video, you would learn about web scraping and how to scrape data from websites using Python and beautiful soup.

Web scraping is a way through which you could extract large amounts of data out of a web page. While the same task might take some humans days, it would take a scraper only a few minutes.

You would learn to scrape a comparatively simple website but you can apply the same methodology and build some really complex scrapers.

The libraries used in the example have good documentation and you could learn a lot from it.

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[matheusjordan]

Thank you bro, this WebScrapping perfectly works!

[jamesadai]

This is awesome. Any pointers on how to automate the script or run it and have the data send to an email account. I managed to create the same in Python 3, save as csv file as well as into an sqlite DB. I am however not able to figure out how to send an email.

[RajeevthakurRV]

Hi as a newbie i am not able to get why you use (if __name__ == '__main__') in last line ?