Python Web Scraping Tutorials – Real Python (original) (raw)

What Is Web Scraping?

Web scraping is about downloading structured data from the web, selecting some of that data, and passing along what you selected to another process.

In this section, you will learn

• about how to store scraped data in databases
• how to process HTML documents and HTTP requests
• techniques for selecting and extracting data from websites
• about writing web spiders that crawl and scrape large portions of the web

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