In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to open a PDF file in an external PDF reader or the browser, using a simple Python command. There are many variants to this problem, so let’s dive right into the different ones—and their solutions! Method 1: Open PDF Standard Viewer with os.system(path) — With CMD You can open … Read more
Problem: Given a string; how to split/cut the string and extract the required characters? In this article, we will be discussing some interesting scenarios which allow us to split or cut a string and extract the necessary portion of the string that we need. Let us dive into each example/scenario and have a look at … Read more
Introduction XML is a tool that is used to store and transport data. It stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is quite similar to HTML and they have almost the same kind of structure but they were designed to accomplish different goals. XML is designed to transport data while HTML is designed to display data. … Read more
Summary: To install BeautifulSoup in WIndows use the command: pip install beautifulsoup4. To install it in Linux use the command: sudo apt-get install python3-bs4. Aim: In this tutorial we will discuss how to to install BeautifulSoup? Since BeautifulSoup is not a Python standard library we need to install it before we can use it to … Read more
Introduction HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) consists of numerous tags and the data we need to extract lies inside those tags. Thus we need to find the right tags to extract what we need. Now, how do we find the right tags? We can do so with the help of BeautifulSoup’s search methods. Beautiful Soup has … Read more
Summary: Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the internet. It is also known as web harvesting or web data extraction. Python allows us to perform web scraping using automated techniques. BeautifulSoup is a Python library used to parse data (structured data) from HTML and XML documents. The internet is an enormous wealth … Read more
Introduction In this tutorial, we will explore numerous examples of using the BeautifulSoup library in Python. For a better understanding let us follow a few guidelines/steps that will help us to simplify things and produce an efficient code. Please have a look at the framework/steps that we are going to follow in all the examples … Read more
Do you want to enrich your Python script with powerful text-generation capabilities? You’re in the right place! What does it do? I just discovered DeepAI’s API that automatically generates a body of text, given a sentence fragment or topic keyword. How can it be used? You can use this as a basis to generate text … Read more
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You may already know about Python’s capability to create a simple web server in a single line of Python code. Old news. Besides, what’s the point of creating a webserver that only runs on your machine? It would be far more interesting to learn how to access existing websites in a single line of code. … Read more
Summary: Download a file over the web by using the following steps in Python. Import libary requests Define URL string Get file data from URL Store file data in file object on your computer Here’s how you can do this to download the Facebook Favicon (source): At the beginning of our struggle with web scraping, … Read more