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

[Ted Pomeroy]

NMGLUGers, Akkana, thank you. Let's give it a try. And you can cut out a
little early to have a break between meetings. Let's see  how it goes.
Thank you on behalf of myself and the group for this effort. Ted P

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:47 PM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> 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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