October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
236 pages
7h 38m
English
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Extracting unstructured text data from a plain web page
In the age of the internet revolution, web pages are the most popular source of text data. You can get newspaper articles, blog posts, personal biography web pages, and many more. Articles in Wikipedia are another source of plain text data through Wikipedia web pages. In this recipe, you will learn how to extract text data from a plain web page.