Web Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup

Learn how to harness the power of web scraping using Python and BeautifulSoup in this informative webinar. Discover the importance of data acquisition in analytics, navigate HTML DOM structures, and implement best practices for extracting valuable information from websites. Explore the legality of web scraping and gain insights into automating scrapers using Azure Functions. Follow along as the presenter demonstrates finding patterns in web pages, coding a scraping script, making it reusable, and automating the process. Gain practical skills to turn the entire World Wide Web into your dataset and enhance your data science capabilities.

Introduction and pre-requisites
Finding patterns in a web page
Coding a web scraping script
Making our script reusable and robust
Automating our script using Azure Functions
Wrap up and Q&A