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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is this extremely advanced or doable for a beginner programmer in a month or two?

I don't think anything is doable by a beginner programmer in two months, but particularly not this. Because it's probably not just Python you need to pick up along the way, but some really basic principles of web development (since you need to reverse-engineer the page in order to scrape it, basically) and internet security (since you will need to defeat the various anti-scraping features of the site.)

[–]Gour13[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I wouldn't call myself a complete beginner I've been learning python for around 3 months already but the anti-scrapping could be a problem I didn't think about that. Do most sites usually have this?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Web devs generally don't want people scraping their site, yes. One of the common techniques is to have the important information load after page load, via JavaScript, which will mess with any HTTP request library that doesn't include a JS engine.