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Introduction to python web scraping and the Beautiful Soup library

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Egidio Docile
Sep 11, 2018

Web scraping is a technique which consist in the extraction of data from a web site through the use of dedicated software. In this tutorial we will see how to perform a basic web scraping using python and the Beautiful Soup library. We will use python3 targeting the homepage of Rotten Tomatoes, the famous aggregator of reviews and news for films and tv shows, as a source of information for our exercise.
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Egidio Docile

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