Automation Lab • 2024-02-15

Web Scraping 101: Extracting Data with BeautifulSoup

Estimated Time
10 MIN
Environment
Python 3.x, BeautifulSoup
Tools

The Scraper's Kit

To start scraping, you need the requests and beautifulsoup4 libraries.

pip install requests beautifulsoup4
01

Step 1 Basic Scraper

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

for link in soup.find_all('span', class_='titleline'):
    print(link.text)

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