Web Scraping using BeautifulSoup
Web Scraping using BeautifulSoup Web Scraping is an automated technique to explore all data on web pages. Particularly we perform web scraping on competitors websites. This is no hacking involved. In [8]: #import necessary packages from requests import get #to get the http response from bs4 import BeautifulSoup #allows us to extract tag information from HTML, HTML5, XML In [4]: url = "https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=2017-01-01,2017-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc&start=1&ref_=adv_nxt" response = get ( url ) print ( response . text [: 100 ]) <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008 In [6]: html_soup = BeautifulSoup ( response . text , 'html.parser' ) type ( html_soup ) Out[6]: bs4.BeautifulSoup In [15]: #find the tag that provides us the required variable information i.e. Title, Rating #note: to find the exact div/class, use the HTML Inspecto...