Tag Archives: Website Scraping

Web Design and Programming Pt 24

Regex TutorialIn todays Programming tutorial I show you how to grab information from a website using Regular Expressions in PHP. The information was particularly hard to get for the following reasons:

  • It was plain text
  • There were no tags to search for
  • Data I wanted was laid out in an unorganized way
  • I had to search for odd unicode characters like ½

I did it though using Regular Expressions and I’ll show you how.

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Python 2.7 Tutorial Pt 17

Python How ToIn this video tutorial I show you how to create dynamic websites with Python. This is the quickest and easiest way to start using Python in much the same way as PHP is used.

I previously taught you how to scrap websites for information in this tutorial Python Website Scraping. Here I’ll show you how to scrap and then display that information dynamically on the internet.

Leave any questions or comments below and here are all of my previous Python Video Tutorial’s:

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Python 2.7 Tutorial Pt 13 Website Scraping

Python How ToIn this video tutorial I show you how to scrap websites. I introduce 2 new modules being UrlLib and Beautiful Soup. UrlLib is preinstalled on Python, but you have to install Beautiful Soup for it to work.

Beautiful Soup is available at their website. If you are using Python versions previous to Python 3.0 get this version Beautiful Soup for Python previous to 3.0. If you are using Python 3.0 or higher get this version of Beautiful Soup.

To install it follow these steps:

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