Yasoob Khalid 6/20/2018

An Intro to Web Scraping With lxml and Python

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This article provides a beginner-friendly guide to web scraping with Python's lxml library. It explains the importance of scraping in the absence of APIs and introduces XPaths for parsing HTML. The tutorial uses a practical example of extracting game names, prices, tags, and platforms from Steam's 'popular new releases' page, with a promise of a follow-up on creating a Flask API.

An Intro to Web Scraping With lxml and Python

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