Step-by-Step Tutorial: Web Scraping Wikipedia with BeautifulSoup
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5 min readJan 5, 2020
My roommate and I had a discussion about her observation of the high depression rate in Sweden. We drew the connection between the depression rate and the lack of sunshine. I decided to support my hypothesis by gathering my own data and analyzing it.
I use Beautiful Soup, an easy-to-use Python tool for web scraping. What I love about this tool is that it…