📌 In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:41 What is Web Scraping?
1:23 Installing libraries
2:10 Parsing news headlines
4:28 Refactoring the Scraper
10:22 Outro and next steps
🚀 Learn web scraping from scratch using Python, requests, and BeautifulSoup!
In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we’ll build a simple scraper to extract article titles from Hacker News. You’ll learn how to:
- Send HTTP requests
- Parse HTML with BeautifulSoup
- Use CSS selectors to grab structured data
- Build a robust scraper with retries and modular code
💡 Tools used:
• Python 3
• requests
• beautifulsoup4
📌 Code includes a clean, reusable structure you can apply to real-world projects.
🧪 Coming soon:
→ Scraping JavaScript websites with Playwright
→ Handling anti-bot protection
→ Working with APIs directly
👋 Drop a comment: What site should I scrape next?
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