How to Extract Website Content Using BeautifulSoup Package in Python
There is a wealth of information available on the internet, and there may be occasions when you need to extract information from websites for things like web scraping, data analysis, or content aggregation. You can parse and extract data from HTML and XML documents using the BeautifulSoup Python library. In this lesson, we’ll look at how to do web scraping using Python BeautifulSoup . Prerequisites Now, let’s look at some setup tools. Make sure Python is installed on your machine before we start web scraping using BeautifulSoup. If not, you can get it from the official Python website and install it. Installing the BeautifulSoup library is also required. Using pip, the Python package manager, you may accomplish this: pip install beautifulsoup4 If you don’t have pip already installed then you can install it by this command: python install pip Getting Started with BeautifulSoup We’ll scrape a sample webpage to demonstrate how BeautifulSoup may be used to extract website content. Imp...