Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

by Vineeth G. Nair

Overview

This book is a practical, hands-on guide that takes you through the techniques of web scraping using Beautiful Soup. Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is great for anybody who is interested in website scraping and extracting information. However, a basic knowledge of Python, HTML tags, and CSS is required for better understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783289561
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/24/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	130
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Vineeth G. Nair completed his bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala. He is currently working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Applications Engineer.

He developed an interest in Python during his college days and began working as a freelance programmer. This led him to work on several web scraping projects using Beautiful Soup. It helped him gain a fair level of mastery on the technology and a good reputation in the freelance arena. He can be reached at [e-mail]. You can visit his website at www.kochicoders.com.