Let's Scrape the Web: PyCon 2020 Video Tutorial

Developing web scraping skills allows you to save time and to broaden your access to data. This tutorial covers web scraping with Python from the basics of HTML to the full scraping pipeline.

Web scraping empowers you to write computer programs to collect data from websites automatically and recent legal rulings support your right to do so. This tutorial covers the breadth and depth of web scraping: from HTML basics through pipeline methods to compile entire datasets. My video provides step-by-step instructions on utilizing Python libraries like requests and BeautifulSoup as well as links to supplementary tutorial resources in the form of Google Colab or Jupyter notebooks.

Check out the supplementary materials via Google Colab (Scraping Basics and Scraping Wikipedia) or on GitHub.