Fetching Text from a Website

Develop the web scraping and data saving program.

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These are the libraries that we will be using.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import openpyxl

Getting text

The first function you want to create will accept a website address (URL) as an argument and return the text (the code as str) of the website. This is a good, neutral function that can be included in any other program you write because it is agnostic to the URL.

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