Building a Web Scraping Script with Python Beautiful Soup & Azure Functions | Community Webinar

Learn how to web scrape with Python and BeautifulSoup and navigate the HTML DOM to find data that interests you. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 22 billion US dollars or 55 dollars per user in 2014. What was the reason behind this acquisition? To get more user data! Diverse, representative, good-quality data is the lifeblood of an analytics pipeline. The number of websites on the internet is estimated to be around 2 billion. Web scraping turns the entire world wide web into your data set. In this webinar, we will introduce how to scrape a website using the BeautifulSoup package in Python. We will discuss how to briefly touch on how to build and automate a web scraper on the cloud using Azure Functions.

Presenter Bio:

Arham Noman is a Data Scientist at Data Science Dojo. He has worked on building multiple analytics products and specializes in using the Azure cloud platform. Arham is one of our instructors for the learning products that we offer and he is also an Azure certified Associate Data Scientist. LinkedIn:   / arhamn  

Link to code repository: https://code.datasciencedojo.com/same...

0:00 – Introduction and pre-requisites
14:15 – Finding patterns in a web page
21:20 – Coding a web scraping script
45:20 – Making our script reusable and robust
54:20 – Automating our script using Azure Functions
1:06:35 – Wrap up and Q&A

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