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Web Scraping

Web Scraping is a technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from websites.

lxml.etree​

theXPath - language for XML queries

beautifulsoup​

  • super short learning curve
  • two function api
    • parse
    • search (find_all)
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

mydivs = soup.find_all("div", {"class": "stylelistrow"})
print(i, soup.body.div.div)

Selenium (for javascript)​

Headless browser​

https://www.toptal.com/python/web-scraping-with-python

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-scrape-websites-with-python

AI Tools​

Scrape and Monitor Data from Any Website with No Code

GitHub - laramies/theHarvester: E-mails, subdomains and names Harvester - OSINT