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Chapter 29: Introduction to Web Scraping

Web scraping involves extracting data from websites. Python's requests and BeautifulSoup libraries are commonly used for this.

Example

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import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

response = requests.get('http://example.com')
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

print(soup.title.text)  # Outputs the title of the page