Web Scraping with Python: A Beginner's Guide

Extract Data from Any Website

Web scraping is a valuable skill for data collection. Here's how to get started with Python.

Install Required Libraries

pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Basic Scraping Example

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "https://example.com"
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

# Find all headings
headings = soup.find_all("h2")
for heading in headings:
    print(heading.text)

Remember to respect robots.txt and rate limit your requests!