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Bhushan Rane
Bhushan Rane

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.py : Web Scraping with Python (Extracting Data from a Website)

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This Python script utilizes the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries to scrape data from a website. It fetches the content of the webpage and uses BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML. You can customize the script to extract specific data like headlines, product information, or prices.

# Python script for web scraping to extract data from a website
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def scrape_data(url):
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
# Your code here to extract relevant data from the website
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