Advanced Web Scraping Tutorial! (w/ Python Beautiful Soup Library)

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In this video, we're diving into advanced web scraping techniques with Python. If you haven't seen my overview of the Beautiful Soup library, check it out first for some foundational knowledge. Web scraping is a highly valuable skill, especially for freelance work. This tutorial will take you through sophisticated scraping methods, using Walmart as an example.

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In this video, we'll cover:
Setting up and understanding the HTML structure of a web page
Extracting data using Beautiful Soup and handling dynamic content
Implementing headers to avoid detection
Parsing JSON data for efficient scraping
Using proxies with Bright Data to bypass IP blocking
Error handling and retries in scraping
Storing scraped data and handling multiple search queries

If you need help getting started with web scraping, check out my original tutorial on BeautifulSoup:
   • Comprehensive Python Beautiful Soup W...  

Helpful Links:
GitHub Repository with Code Examples: https://github.com/KeithGalli/advance...

Video Timeline!
0:00 - Intro & Overview
1:30 - Identifying HTML Structure for Scraping (from Walmart)
4:26 - Writing Python BeautifulSoup Code to Extract Info from Walmart.com
7:22 - Implementing modified request headers to avoid detection
6:10 - Handling Dynamic Content
8:00 - Implementing Modified Request Headers to Avoid Detection (look more human when scraping)
9:30 - Parsing Complicated JSON Data (Using LLMs to help)
15:28 - Extending our Code to Collect Info on Many Products (Automating Search)
24:45 - Improving our Code (avoiding duplicates, multiple search terms, using a queue, etc.)
27:20 - Setting Up Proxies with Bright Data (Get around IP Address blocks)
36:35 - Error Handling and Retries
39:36 - Automating actions on pages with Selenium
41:42 - Conclusion & Next Steps

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