Web Scraping with Python: An Introductory Tutorial
Key Packages
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requests -- Issues HTTP requests to web servers and handles the response
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beautifulsoup4 -- Parse the returned web page and makes it searchable
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These packages are not in Python's standard library, here is how to install them:
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Standard Python:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
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Anaconda Python:
conda install requests beautifulsoup4
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# Requests …