Web Scraping Crash Course! With Python and Scrapy [PyOhio 2023]

Talk by James Walters at PyOhio 2023:
APIs are a great way to consume publicly accessible data. But what do you do when there's no API? Enter web scraping: a way you can harvest data out of the same HTML documents you look at in your web browser.
We'll talk about:
* What is web scraping?
* What is Scrapy and why should you use it?
* How to scrape data from HTML elements in a web page
Source code for the example project in the talk will be available!
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