Python Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup and Regex

Check out the power of Python with a demonstration of web scraping using Beautiful Soup and also some Regex.
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[@estilen69]

Using CSS selectors is the way to go, gets rid of nested for loops and is more robust.

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[@EluviumMC]

Happy that you've chosen this topic. I've been exploring web scraping and have a script that works pretty well on a site that I frequent. Another awesome tool that can be used to also automate web navigation is the selenium package. But on more of a question-related note, I know the script you just made was pretty simple, and the one I have isn't that complicated, but I've been wondering how one would go about writing an object-oriented script for scraping?

[@UchihaAditya]

What are the advantages of selenium over Beautiful Soup?? I have a web-scraping assignment now and was advised to use selenium.

[@EluviumMC]

Selenium can be used as a web scraper, but I use it more for web navigation and then use beautiful soup to actually get the data I need from the pages once they've been navigated to. I just find beautiful soup to be a more intuitive for extracting the data.

[@yixunnnn]

With selenium it is like an automated user, and when you use it, you require a web driver, and you can choose if you want the automated browser to run in the background or not. I recently used selenium because I was trying to request for content behind a microsoft login page, which is loaded using javascript, thus I needed to wait till the content was actually loaded finish before i submit anything. Unlike requests, which instantly retrieves the page content.

[@treybailey6752]

Great vid with fantastic content. Would love to see this where you first login in order to get content. Getting the headers set is a challenge.

[@EluviumMC]

Using Selenium to do the site navigation to get you logged in is how I worked around getting into a site that requires login credentials prior to scraping.

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great stuff, thank you for this.

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Awesome tutorial man! Can I suggest scraping dynamic pages as the next tutorial. Would be a sweet follow up

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Thanks. Part 2 of this is being requested a lot, I need to see what is best to do.

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Good video. Personally, i like using node with dom module and write css queries to extract what i want.

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Awesome video! Can you do one on the requests module please?

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3 searches in the loop - very dirty ) "The speed of software halves every 18 months"

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[@DrSarge37]

It would be cool to see how to deal with pagination. So you want data from /page=1, /page=2 etc. Etc.

[@joefagan9335]

In your browser go to next page and copy the url of, say, page 2 and go to last to find the last page url. Use that as a template to build the url of each page you want. Loop over them in turn.

[@joefagan9335]

John Keymer nope you’re not parsing the page a second time to find the next button. You scrape the current page and then grab the neat page by creating the string for the next url and accessing the next page - just one grab per page.

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loved it ! Efficiency and very clear for a beginner. Would be great to have the login part, and why not sending the extraction into a csv file ;) I subscribe ;)

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@Engineer Man , what is your day job? And how did you get into coding? Do you have a CS degree? and.... well instead of more questions, rather just ask whats your background (ito what lead to you adding so much value with these vids)?

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Went through a 30 second hillshire farms ad. Great match youtube

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Thank you..!!

[@chowfatt38]

Great video again. I've been playing web scraping a while and I find that most of websites nowadays using javascript rendering quite heavy. Will you make a part 2 for talking about how to web scrape javascript rendering website? And what do you think about another web scraping package, Scrapy? thanks Man

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This would be a great follow on. +1

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Selenium is good and easy....

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+2

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Hey, I really love your videos man! How about elements within elements, so for example `this link is in a paragraph`. How would you approach that?

[@NokiaN8Guides]

thank you so much for this amazing tutorial, i would like to ask what do we do if the site i want to scrap require to be logged in btw this got recap

[@joefagan9335]

Usually, you can login first. Leave it open in your browser and scrape away.

[@siloenoah]

Teach me your ways

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[@MrFrondoso]

Génial. Dieu sait que je galère à utiliser BSoup . Et là j'ai l'impression d'avoir enfin compris.

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Awesome

[@DrChrisCopeland]

how would you modify this for nested div elements in place of table row and cell elements?

[@kingseekerbackup3085]

I use requests and bs4. Never thought of using regex besides pattern searching

[@donaldandmijung]

great tutorials! do you have a tutorial on scraping with a function( ) using beautiful soup

[@alfredleppanen6796]

Hey great video! Lets say in your last leaderboard example, I would like to get notified when the leaderboard has changed, so to say when something changed on the site. I have built a script where I can see the HASH change, but I cant output what actually changed on to website, do you have any tips to how to monitor what actually changed on the website?

[@SiegeX1]

Can you go over an example that first requires you to login and then requires you to use a query string with a hash token that changes after every login?

[@dralexhunter]

Can you do a video showing the interactions between sessions and bs4?

[@Ashesoftheliving]

Hey E-man Great video! I wanted to ask you this. You said that "you have to know the structure of html before doing scraping from websites" which is true but I need to create a process where I can search a keyword or basically a word on multiple websites and get the content out of those websites. Now from this content, I will create a sentiment value and generate a newsfeed in my application with a sentiment value in it. Can you suggest a way I can do that? Thanks in Advance

[@nicememe999]

Yes! A great tutorial on web scraping! Now I got some ideas on some websites I could scrape for data... What kind of real-world applications could this be used for? With websites providing APIs with the data nicely packaged in JSON format, it seems like getting data via APIs seems to be the better (or at least the most common way) to do this. Are there any situations where web scraping would be better?

[@impossible441]

I guess that any kind of scientific literature databeses use webscraping (i.e. google scholar)

[@EluviumMC]

Webscraping should be a last resort. Getting data via an API is much better.