Web Scraping 101 with Python & Beautiful Soup
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6 min readMay 5, 2018
Webscraping is a method of data mining from web sites that uses software to extract all the information available from the targeted site by simulating human behavior. Each year, more and more businesses adopt webscraping tools as part of their business intelligence and advertising initiatives.
A popular use of web scraping is to search for online deals like airline tickets, concerts etc. For example, a python script could scrape a website when ticket sales go online, and use a bot to purchase the best tickets. A script would be able to do this much…
