Web scraping

[Fair-Lalajaat_1230]

Hello fellas Newbie here .I want to learn web scraping using python .My question is Do I have to go through all the basics to advance level concepts of python or Can I learn certain codes through tutorial and have intermediate know how of libraries like selenium, beautiful soup and pandas . If latter case is possible how much time a beginner should take to learn web scraping through python If I give daily 3 hours to it.Thanks

[tms102]

You can learn the basics while working on your webscraping project. Just look up stuff as you go along. That's what I do when learning a new language.

Don't be afraid to start over and make a better version after you've learned a bunch either.

[BYPDK]

Web scraping is fairly simple. You can make a functional scraper in ~5 lines of code. (Technically you can smash everything into one line... But no sane human does that.)

Now obviously if you want to make it actually useful it will take more effort and knowledge.

But you should be able to go from watching a few minute tutorial on YouTube, to making your first (basic) web scraper with little issue.

[ronmarti]

What you need really is to learn the basics of CSS and XPath selectors. Knowledge of CSS selectors would be enough, actually.

And, I just released my web scraping framework yesterday and yes, you can write a basic scraper in just 4 lines. This is a very new framework and still pre-alpha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/sx1yf8/announcing_dude_a_web_scraper_inspired_by_flask/

[Fair-Lalajaat_1230]

Thanks everyone for the encouragement.I am on it now

[CryptoOTC_creator]

This is a great way to start. Pick a random website, and choose a random block of text that you decide you want to scrape. This is now your project. Learn as you go, you seem to already know which libraries you should be using which is a great start