Web scraping is a very powerful tool to learn for any data professional. With web scraping the entire internet becomes your database. In this tutorial we show you how to parse a web page into a data file (csv) using a Python package called BeautifulSoup.

In this example, we web scrape graphics cards from NewEgg.com.

Python Code:
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Sublime:

Anaconda:

JavaScript beautifier:

If you are not seeing the command line, follow this tutorial:

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Table of Contents:
0:00 – Introduction
1:28 – Setting up Anaconda
3:00 – Installing Beautiful Soup
3:43 – Setting up urllib
6:07 – Retrieving the Web Page
10:47 – Evaluating Web Page
11:27 – Converting Listings into Line Items
16:13 – Using jsbeautiful
16:31 – Reading Raw HTML for Items to Scrape
18:34 – Building the Scraper
22:11 – Using the “findAll” Function
27:26 – Testing the Scraper
29:07 – Creating the .csv File
32:18 – End Result
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