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

[Art Barnes]

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-Art

> On Oct 14, 2021, at 4:58 PM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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