A Presentation of How to scrape sites using Python. Intro on Python and scraping then when to not scrap then how to scrape a site along with the demo. It contains some memes so that the presentation will not bore anyone.

1. Web Scraping for learning
purposes using Python
By Gagan Deep Singh

2. Disclaimer
We are going to
discuss about
Python
Programming
Language.
Not Python Snake

3. Table of Contents
• About Python
• Importance Of Python
• Introduction to Web Scraping
• Applications of Web Scraping
• Things You Should Know
• Implementation

4. About Python
Guido van Rossum
(Creator Of Python)

5. About Python
• Released in 1991
• Name inspired from Monty
Python’s Flying Circus
• High Level General Purpose
Programming Language

6. Why
Python

7. • Human Readable Code
• Massive amount of 3rd Party
Libraries
Google’s Ideology:
“Python Where we can,
C++ where we must..”

8. Python was also Used in
Making FX for

9. Introduction to
Web Scraping

10. Applications
of Scraping
• For Creating our own Data sets for Data Analysis
and Machine Learning
• Extracting reviews from Ecommerce Sites
• Collecting Data from Social Networking Sites
• Web Application Testing
• Building Price Comparison Sites

11. Things you should know
(before scraping a site..)
• Robots.txt
• Requests limit
• Terms and Conditons

12. https://worpress.com/robots.txt

13. How to Scrap a Site?
1. Do some Research on the Site
2. Once you know the structure,
Mimic the requests sent via
browser with Python
3. Scrap the Content!

14. Example Site :

15. Evaluate the Site

16. Implementation

18. Thank You