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Web scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites. It involves making HTTP requests to a website's server, downloading the HTML of the web page, and then parsing that HTML to extract the data you're interested in. Python is a popular language for web scraping because of its libraries like Beautiful Soup and Scrapy.


Beautiful Soup is a library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It is used to parse the HTML and extract the …

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