Demonstration of using Beautiful Soup to scrape data from the web.

• Use Beautiful Soup to parse a page (scraper.py, follow-scraper.py)
• Use Scrapy to create a spider to follow links provided (horse.py)
• Use Scrapy to create a spider to extract links from a site and follow them (crawler.py)
• Find forms and submit data via Scrapy
• Scrape data from World Bank API
• Unit testing and testing with Selenium

• Python 3x
• PyCharm beautifulsoup4 package
• Beautiful Soup 4 Docs
• Scrapy
• Selenium
• Chrome Webdriver

macOS 10.15 (Catalina):

Due to the recent requirement from Apple that all programs must be notarized, geckodriver will not work on Catalina if you manually download it through another notarized program, such as Firefox.

• Best to use Chrome webdriver for now.

• Examples from Treehouse, Scraping Data From the Web
• PEP 20, The Zen of Python
• Python 3 Docs
• Beautiful Soup
• Beautiful Soup 4 Docs
• Example Website to Scrape, Horses
• Example Horse Website Form via formspree
• Scrapy
• formspree.io
• Scrapy FormRequest
• World Bank API Docs
• World Bank API, Requesting Country Data
• World Bank Data - Ethiopia
• Selenium Webdriver Docs
• How to Install Chrome Webdriver on Mac
• Gecko Webdriver for Firefox