How to Build a Python Web Scraper: Scrape Data from any Website
by Teri4mSeptember 8th, 2022 Too Long; Didn't Read
Python allows you to scrape or grab data from a website with a Python script. This method of gathering data is called web scraping. Most websites don’t want you scraping their data, and to find out what is legal and permissible for scraping, websites have a dedicated page that shows details of the endpoints allowed. In this exercise, we scrape the news content's home page, which we can do according to the user agent. With the whole script written, our page should scrape the data from the news home page of YCombinator.