Feb. 23, 2024, 12:30 a.m. | hil

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If you've ever been curious about how to extract valuable data from websites, you're in the right place. Web scraping is a powerful tool for gathering information from the internet, and Python, with its rich ecosystem of libraries, makes this task easy for us.



In this blog post, we'll cover:



  • List of tools we can use for web scraping with Python.

  • Simple web scraping for static websites.

  • Using Selenium for dynamic content or Javascript-heavy site/

  • MechanicalSoup to automate some task …

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