Web Scraping Tutorial with Python and BeautifulSoup

Learn how to web scrape with Python and BeautifulSoup and navigate the HTML DOM to find data that interests you. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 22 billion US dollars or 55 dollars per user in 2014. What was the reason behind this acquisition? To get more user data! Diverse, representative, good-quality data is the lifeblood of an analytics pipeline. The number of websites on the internet is estimated to be around 2 billion. Web scraping turns the entire world wide web into your data set. In this webinar, we will introduce how to scrape a website using the BeautifulSoup package in Python. We will discuss how to briefly touch on how to build and automate a web scraper on the cloud using Azure Functions.

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0:00 – Introduction and pre-requisites
14:15 – Finding patterns in a web page
21:20 – Coding a web scraping script
45:20 – Making our script reusable and robust
54:20 – Automating our script using Azure Functions
1:06:35 – Wrap up and Q&A

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[najmaraja]

Very good. Clear, concise, relevant and up-to-date information.

[arianaromero]

Excelent, I have a question, I need the images, how can i get the images in format JPG?

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[riahjaklich]

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