Behind AI #4: The Easiest Way To Web Scrape with Python
Learning this method won't take you more than 5 minutes.
Hi!
There’s a very easy way to scrape websites with Python. It doesn’t work for all websites out there, but it’s still a simple method that it’s worth learning.
Believe me, this method is so simple that it won’t take you more than five minutes to learn it, so start now!
Did you know that we can easily scrape websites in Python using a library called pandas?
In certain situations, you could avoid building a scraper from scratch with Beautiful Soup, Selenium, or Scrapy and use only pandas to easily extract data from websites.
Pandas is mainly used for data analysis but, in this article, I’ll show you how to use it to extract data from simple websites. This library won’t replace powerful scraping tools, but hey, it can save you a lot of time when scraping simple websites.