You need actual data to work on data and web scraping is one of the ways you can collect data. In this post, I write about a Python web scraper I coded that collects data from a fictional bookstore. via GIPHY Resources used For this project, I used ...
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Yeah. There was a period I took deep interest in web scraping. I learnt it, built a couple of scrapers from tutorials and afterwards built a web crawler and integrated it to a small search engine. Of course, the crawler was so slow because of my approach of only storing the link and extracted keywords to the database, just to avoid consuming much storage. I ended up not hosting it as desired because of this.
amirah
psych grad, content writer, learning to code :)
I've never built a web scraper before, but now I'm interested. This was a nice intro and cool project 📚