Using Python and BeautifulSoup, we can quickly, and efficiently, scrap data from a web page. In the example below, I am going to show you how to scrap a web page in 20 lines of code, using BeautifulSoup and Python.

What is Web Scraping:

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting information from a website. Web scraping, or data scraping, is useful for researchers, marketers and analysts interested in compiling, filtering and repackaging data.

A word of caution: Always respect the website’s privacy policy and check robots.txt before scraping. If a website offers API to interact with its data, it is better to use that instead of scraping.