Python Requests/BS4 Beginners Series Part 1: How To Build Our First Scraper

When it comes to web scraping Python is the go-to language for web scraping because of its highly active community, great web scraping libraries and popularity within the data science community.

To address this, we are doing a 6-Part Python Requests/BeautifulSoup Beginner Series, where we're going to build a Python scraping project end-to-end from building the scrapers to deploying on a server and run them every day.

In this video we'll go over the basics of scraping with Python, and build our first Python scraper. Including:

00:00 Intro
00:09 How to Setup Our Python Environment
00:43 Laying Out Our Python Scraper
02:11 Retrieving The HTML From Website
02:38 Extracting Data From HTML
06:55 Saving Data to CSV
08:16 How to Navigate Through Pages

[faulypi]

Great video. I am new to scraping and these videos have been very helpful.