[nmglug] Mini-tutorial, Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup, tonight

[Akkana Peck]

I just realized the 7:00 meeting doesn't conflict with a 5:30-7
meeting. (Duh!) So I can hang out for the full meeting and maybe
show a little selenium tonight too. I'm only a beginner at selenium,
so I probably can't answer any advanced questions, but I can at
least show how to get started.

        ...Akkana

Akkana Peck writes:
> A couple meetings ago, we talked about web scraping, and I offered
> to give a tutorial on how to scrape with the Python module
> BeautifulSoup. There was also interest in selenium, which I
> hadn't used at the time, but now I have so I could talk about
> that a little.
> 
> Unfortunately it turns out I have another commitment tonight at 7.
> So what I'll do is try not to be late to the meeting at 5:30, and
> for half an hour I can give an introduction to HTML, the DOM and how
> to do simple scraping with BeautifulSoup.
> 
> Then at the next meeting on Oct 28, if anyone has any questions
> about BeautifulSoup I can continue with that, and then if people are
> still interested in selenium, I can talk about that and about how you
> can use the two packages together.
> 
>         ...Akkana
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