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Web Scraping Fundamentals
This book about web scraping covers practical concepts with detailed explanations and example code. We will introduce you to the essential topics in extracting or scraping data (that is, high-quality data) from websites, using effective techniques from the web and the Python programming language.
In this chapter, we are going to understand basic concepts related to web scraping. Whether or not you have any prior experience in this domain, you will easily be able to proceed with this chapter.
The discussion of the web or websites in our context refers to pages or documents including text, images, style sheets, scripts, and video contents, built using a markup language such as HTML. It’s almost a container of various ...
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