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Preparing to Scrape

Explore how to prepare for web scraping by defining goals, inspecting HTML elements with browser tools, and using Python's requests library to retrieve web content for parsing.

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Figure out the purpose of scrapping

Before we can start scraping, we need to figure out what we want to do. We will be using my blog for this example. We can use Python’s urllib2 module to download the HTML that we need to ...