Python Web Scraping: From URL to CSV in No Time

Setting up the Environment Before diving into web scraping with Python, set up your environment by installing the necessary libraries. First, install the following libraries: requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas. These packages play a crucial role in web scraping, each serving different purposes.✨ To install these libraries, click on the previously provided links for a full … Read more

How I Scattered My Fat with Python – Scraping and Analyzing My Nutrition Data From Cronometer.com

From April 1st through August 14th, I tracked everything I ate on cronometer.com as part of a weight loss challenge. Overall I lost almost 25 pounds at a rate of 1.2 pounds per week. I always wondered what I could learn if I could scrape that data and get it into a Jupyter Notebook. In … Read more

Building a Q&A Bot with OpenAI: A Step-by-Step Guide to Scraping Websites and Answer Questions

Have you ever found yourself deep in the internet rabbit hole, searching for an answer to a question that just won’t quit? It can be frustrating to sift through all the online information and still come up empty-handed. But what if there was a way to get accurate and reliable answers in a snap? Enter … Read more

5 Easy Ways to Download an Image from a URL in Python

Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to download an image from the web in Python. To make it more fun, we have the following running scenario: Sven, a Journalist from Greeland, is writing about Glacier Calving. His editor would like photos of iceberg collapses in the area accompanying his article. … Read more

Web Hacking 101: Solving the TryHackMe Pickle Rick “Capture The Flag” Challenge

The Pickle Rick CTF (capture the flag) challenge requires basic webhacking techniques including: The theme of the challenge is Rick and Morty, the animated tv show. The silly premise of this box is that we need to find the three hidden ingredients that Rick needs to change himself from a pickle back to a human. … Read more

Python Scrapy – Scraping Dynamic Website with API-Generated Content

Scrapy is an excellent tool for extracting data from static and dynamic websites. In this article, we are going to discuss the solution to the following problems: Extract all details of Offices from the website https:/directory.ntschools.net/#/offices Instead of using a whole scrapy framework, use a typical Python script for extracting the data. For each office, … Read more