Python Selenium Tutorial #2 - Web Scraping Key Performance Indicator

In part 2, we will be web scraping key performance indicator from the Morningstar webpage to get the following information.

- Current EFT price (in dollars)
- If the EFT fund is going up or down
- How much has the EFT price gone up in dollars/cents
- How much has the EFT price gone up in percentage
- And the date and time stamp of when this data was captured (from the Morningstar webpage)

This Selenium tutorial for beginners module has been structure with easy to follow steps. We will introduce you to the world of web scraping with Python Using Selenium. The core scripting language (Python) has also been structure as a Python for beginners.

Web scraping is a very neat and at times very powerful technique to acquire data from another website, and data is knowledge and "power".
This tutorial, we will show you how to perform web scraping using Selenium and Python, and after which parse (or output) the data into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for further manipulations.
We will show you how to install Python and Selenium, basic background on different libraries, illustrate typical gotchas in web scrapping and how to output the scrapped data into an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

We hope that Python Selenium Tutorial will be handy for your new web scraping projects.

I am using Morningstar webpage to show you how to perform web scraping.

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[testtesten]

Hi,
Thanks for the Great Video. Is it possible that Selenium gives a alert (event listener?), when the price is changed?

[roberrodes]

Thank you for the video. Is it possible with selenium to close the ad window on Morningstar?