Lightning Talk Beginner CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) First Talk

My First Web Scraper: Lessons from Using Beautiful Soup

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Session Description

In this session, I will share my journey of using Beautiful Soup to parse HTML and extract information programmatically. Instead of focusing on complex scraping techniques, this talk will explore the fundamentals like understanding HTML structure, navigating tags, and extracting data using a few lines of Python code.

Through a live demo, I will demonstrate how a simple code can fetch a webpage, parse its HTML, and extract specific content from it. I will also discuss practical challenges I faced during this period of learning. This session is aimed at students and beginners like me who want to understand how open-source tools like Beautiful Soup make it easier to interact with web data.

Key Takeaways

-Basics of web scraping using Beautiful Soup

-How open-source libraries empower beginners

-Understanding how HTML structure works behind a webpage

-How to inspect and identify relevant HTML elements using this open-source library

References

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

https://github.com/wention/BeautifulSoup4.git

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Session Categories

Tutorial about using a FOSS project

Talk License: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0)

Speakers

BAVIYA VARSHINI V Student | KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology

Baviya Varshini V is a Computer Science student with a strong interest in cyber security and curious about learning open-source technologies. During her internship, she explored web scraping using Beautiful Soup and developed an understanding of HTML parsing. She enjoys learning by building and sharing beginner-friendly insights that make technical concepts more approachable for students entering the open-source ecosystem.

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