BBN HacKnight Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

BB&N HacKnight – Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup, available at Free, with 19 lectures, and has 215 subscribers.

You will learn about Basic HTML structure and creating an HTML website Basic Python concepts and the Beautiful Soup library Web scraping on a real website Saving information as user-accessible text files This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner Python developers interested in web scraping It is particularly useful for Beginner Python developers interested in web scraping.

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Summary

Title: BB&N HacKnight – Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Price: Free

Number of Lectures: 19

Number of Published Lectures: 19

Number of Curriculum Items: 19

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 19

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Basic HTML structure and creating an HTML website

Basic Python concepts and the Beautiful Soup library

Web scraping on a real website

Saving information as user-accessible text files

Who Should Attend

Beginner Python developers interested in web scraping

Target Audiences

Beginner Python developers interested in web scraping

Are you tired of scrolling endlessly through websites to find information? Web scraping allows you to access and store web data with a single click. In this workshop, we will use Python’s Beautiful Soup library to create a web scraping tool that will help us scrape a job listing website. Using this tool, we will find the best job that aligns with the user’s skills and needs! Introductory knowledge of Python and HTML is preferred, but not necessary. We will be using the PyCharm workspace, so downloading it is highly advised to follow along!

This course is a part of the HacKnight event, a two-day student-led computer science event taking place at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School. The first day is a learnathon, where BB&N students lead CS-related workshops for people of all ages and backgrounds in the Boston area. In 2024, students from all grades taught workshops on concepts like web scraping, app development, shell scripting, computer architecture, machine learning models, block-based programming, game development, prompt engineering, artificial intelligence in finance, and creating your own programming languages. Each workshop starts with a tutorial on downloading the necessary software and an overview of basic programming concepts. Then, instructors demonstrate how to navigate the workspaces they will use for their projects. This includes IDEs like PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, Unity, Swift, or Anaconda. Each workshop ends with a final project, where students apply their knowledge in a hands-on manner and create a “product” of their own. HacKnight allows CS enthusiasts to learn from experienced and passionate high schoolers, creating a bond between lower and upperclassmen and helping us share our interests with the world! 

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Description and Expectations

Lecture 2: Downloading PyCharm

Chapter 2: Introduction to HTML

Lecture 1: Basic HTML Structure

Lecture 2: HTML Tags

Lecture 3: Overview of Our Sample HTML Website

Lecture 4: Using the Inspect Tool

Chapter 3: Python Review

Lecture 1: Python Syntax and Commenting

Lecture 2: Variables and Conditional Statements

Lecture 3: Functions and Loops

Chapter 4: Pythons Beautiful Soup Library

Lecture 1: Opening Local Files

Lecture 2: .find() and .find_all() Methods

Lecture 3: Starting a Basic Scraping Project with Our Sample HTML Website

Chapter 5: Web Scraping on a Real Website

Lecture 1: The Requests Library and other Downloads

Lecture 2: Applying What Weve Learned!

Lecture 3: Filtering Information

Chapter 6: Other Functionalities, Prettifying, and Storing Information

Lecture 1: Formatting Output

Lecture 2: Filtering Out Unfamiliar Skills

Lecture 3: Making Our Program More Dynamic

Lecture 4: Creating Directories and Text Files

Instructors

BB&N HacKnight
BB&N Computer Science Club

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