How to start Web scraping with python?

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  • Know the basics of HTML 1st, will take you 30-45 mins. Then move on to how you can access a webpage or use functions as POST and GET (Theory). Then you learn about urllib or requests module python. I prefer requests and along with that you need a HTML parser which is Beautifulsoup. Learn that. After all of these try building a small webscraper yourself and for advanced bots use scrapy. I have some simple webscraping programs , if you wish to check it out , heres the link - https://github.com/Vendetta2003/files/blob/master/wikiBot.py

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