Python Tutorial #24: Build a Web Scraper — BeautifulSoup and httpx
In the previous tutorial, we built a REST API with FastAPI. Now let’s build a web scraper — a program that extracts data from web pages automatically. We will use httpx to fetch pages and BeautifulSoup to parse HTML. By the end, you will know how to extract data, save it to JSON and CSV, and scrape responsibly. When to Scrape (and When Not To) Web scraping is useful for: Collecting data that is not available via an API Monitoring prices, job listings, or news Research and data analysis But check these first: ...