Web Scraping with Python – Beautiful Soup Crash Course

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Learn how to perform web scraping with Python using the Beautiful Soup library.

✏️ Tutorial by JimShapedCoding. Check out his YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8d7rcShA7MGuDyYH1aWGg

🔗 You can get code snippets here: https://github.com/jimdevops19/codesnippets/tree/main/Python%20Web%20Scraping

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
Local HTML Scraping:
⌨️ (00:00) Basic HTML Structure, HTML Tags Explanation
⌨️ (05:35) Packages Installation
⌨️ (07:23) Scraping Usage, Local files
⌨️ (12:41) Beautiful Soup find & find_all() methods
⌨️ (16:22) Web Browser Inspect tool
⌨️ (18:30) Grab all Prices, Basic Scraping Project

Website Scraping:
⌨️ (24:48) Using the Requests Library to see a Website’s HTML
⌨️ (30:10) Scraping a Production Website, Best practices for pulling info
⌨️ (44:05) Looping through similar soup.find_all() objects

Features addition:
⌨️ (48:26) Prettifying the Jobs paragraph
⌨️ (54:05) Jobs Filtration by owned skills
⌨️ (57:45) Setting up the Project to scrape every 10 minutes
⌨️ (1:01:53) Storing the jobs paragraph in text files