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A high-level overview of the world of data scraping in Python. What it is and isn't and how it can be used.
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Howdy, I'm Ken, and
I'm chomping at the bit to introduce you
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the wild world of data wrangling and
specifically, web scraping.
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We'll be taking an eye-level look at how
to automate data gathering from the web.
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Of course, we'll have some hands-on
practice along the way as well.
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What exactly is web scraping?
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The definition I like best is that it's
the automated collecting of data from
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the web by any means other than
a program interacting with an API.
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This typically is done through
writing a program that requests data
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