Python Web Scraping Tutorial

Web scraping, also called web data mining or web harvesting, is the process of constructing an agent which can extract, parse, download and organize useful information from the web automatically.

This tutorial will teach you various concepts of web scraping and makes you comfortable with scraping various types of websites and their data.

Audience

This tutorial will be useful for graduates, post graduates, and research students who either have an interest in this subject or have this subject as a part of their curriculum. The tutorial suits the learning needs of both a beginner or an advanced learner.

Prerequisites

The reader must have basic knowledge about HTML, CSS, and Java Script. He/she should also be aware about basic terminologies used in Web Technology along with Python programming concepts. If you do not have knowledge on these concepts, we suggest you to go through tutorials on these concepts first.