<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:47 PM Akkana Peck <<a href="mailto:akkana@shallowsky.com">akkana@shallowsky.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I just realized the 7:00 meeting doesn't conflict with a 5:30-7<br>
meeting. (Duh!) So I can hang out for the full meeting and maybe<br>
show a little selenium tonight too. I'm only a beginner at selenium,<br>
so I probably can't answer any advanced questions, but I can at<br>
least show how to get started.<br>
<br>
...Akkana<br>
<br>
Akkana Peck writes:<br>
> A couple meetings ago, we talked about web scraping, and I offered<br>
> to give a tutorial on how to scrape with the Python module<br>
> BeautifulSoup. There was also interest in selenium, which I<br>
> hadn't used at the time, but now I have so I could talk about<br>
> that a little.<br>
> <br>
> Unfortunately it turns out I have another commitment tonight at 7.<br>
> So what I'll do is try not to be late to the meeting at 5:30, and<br>
> for half an hour I can give an introduction to HTML, the DOM and how<br>
> to do simple scraping with BeautifulSoup.<br>
> <br>
> Then at the next meeting on Oct 28, if anyone has any questions<br>
> about BeautifulSoup I can continue with that, and then if people are<br>
> still interested in selenium, I can talk about that and about how you<br>
> can use the two packages together.<br>
> <br>
> ...Akkana<br>
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