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Analytics Practice : Web Scraping

Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol for most cases and may go through a web browser for dynamic contents.

For basic webscraping python is one of the most common tools that is used for these tasks. Here is a file for a basic python webscraping, please download the following codes for reference. Python code

The following video would be helpful to learn basic webscraping content.