Web Scraping Basics

How to scrape data from a website in Python

Songhao Wu
Towards Data Science
9 min readJul 15, 2020

--

Photo by Franck V from Unsplash

We always say “Garbage in Garbage out” in data science. If you do not have good quality and quantity of data, most likely you would not get many insights out of it. Web Scraping is one of the important methods to retrieve third-party data automatically. In this article, I will be covering the basics of web scraping and use two examples to illustrate the 2…

--

--