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Deepjyoti Barman
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Getting started with web scraping in Python

Web scraping

If you do a simple Google search about Web Scraping, it'll lead you to the wiki page of Web Scraping, which notes that web scraping started way back in 1993. Even though back then, and even now, these scrapers were used to collect data from the sites, our aim would be a bit different. We don't want to collect all kinds of data but only the data that would benefit us.

For the sake of this article, we'll take the example of building a simple API for billboard that returns chart data based on the passed chart name.

The Process

The process can be broken down into 3 steps

  1. Research
  2. Implementing
  3. Checking all cases

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