How do I use Beautiful Soup for web scraping?

How do I use Beautiful Soup for web scraping?

Beautiful Soup is a Python library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. You can start by installing it using pip: pip install beautifulsoup4.

What are the basic functions I should know?

Key functions include find(), find_all(), and select(). They help you locate elements in the HTML.

Can you show me a simple example?

Sure! Here's a basic example:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'http://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

# Find the first <h1> tag
h1 = soup.find('h1')
print(h1.text)

What if the website has dynamic content?

For dynamic content, you might need to use Selenium or another tool that can render JavaScript.