Build a Web Scraper in Python
Build a web scraper from scratch in Python. It's an SEO analytics tool that reports on the internal linking profile of any website. Also available in:
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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Use Python to build a web crawler that scrapes pages. It's a tool that any SEO expert would be happy to have. You'll make HTTP requests and parse HTML to generate reports that can easily marshaled to standard output or a file. If you're interested in getting a job doing data analysis, this project will teach you how Python can be used to build a command-line application.
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