Web Scraping With Python

Today, I am going to discuss a very important topic regarding scraping with python. So firstly, I am introducing the word "Scraping", it is also known as Data Scraping or Web Scraping.

What is Web Scraping? 

"Scraping is derived from the old English Word "scrapian which means scratch with the fingernails.

Difference between Web Scraping and Data Scraping:

Both techniques extract data from given sources but the main difference between Data and Web Scraping is the mode of Data Extraction.

Web Scraping:

"Pulling data from a website using a software program is known as Web Scraping."

Data Scraping:

"Pulling data from an online and offline mode using a software program or involvement of human beings is known as Data Scraping".

I found python is the most powerful and simplex programming language to do that task very simplest way. If you are using python then the first step is to install two important packages. There are two most important libraries are needed to perform this task which is described below.

1- requests
2-beautifulsoup

If you have python installed on a local machine, then type the below command to install these packages.

1-pip install requests
2-pip install beautifulsoup

You can find sample code for scraping on my Github repository. Click here.