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Tutorial: Kimberly Fessel - It's Officially Legal so Let's Scrape the Web

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Web developmentProgramming languagesPythonHTTP, REST and GraphQL

Kimberly Fessel teaches the basics of HTML and how to build web scraping pipelines in Python.

Presented by: Kimberly Fessel Web scraping empowers you to write Python programs that 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. Participants should have working knowledge of Python fundamentals but need not have prior experience scraping. Tutorial resources: - GitHub Tutorial Materials: github.com/kimfetti/Conferences/tree/master/PyCon_2020 - Google Colab Notebooks: bit.ly/pycon2020_scrapingbasics and bit.ly/pycon2020_scrapingwiki

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