Web Crawling in Python
In the old days, it was a tedious job to collect data, and it was sometimes very expensive. Machine learning projects cannot live without data. Luckily, we have a lot of data on the web at our disposal nowadays. We can copy data from the web to create our dataset. We can manually download files and save them to the disk. But we can do it more efficiently by automating the data harvesting. There are several tools in Python that can help the automation.
After finishing this tutorial, you will learn:
- How to use the requests library to read online data using HTTP
- How to read tables on web pages using pandas
- How to use Selenium to emulate browser