Data Scraping: Lesson 2

Key Insights:

Install Visual Studio Code from code.visualstudio.com.

Create a new Python file (make sure the name ends with .py).

Install the Python extension inside VS Code.

Open the terminal and run these two commands to install packages:
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests

requests is used to get the HTML code from a website.

You create a variable for the URL, then use requests.get(url) to get the page.

Printing page.text shows you the raw HTML code behind the webpage.

This HTML includes all the data and structure that you’ll scrape later.