Web Scraping With Python (An Ultimate Guide)

If you are a beginner in a web scraping world then you might get overwhelmed with the amount of libraries offered by any programming language. Web scraping can be very useful for you or your company as it can offer enormous amount of data which can be used for better decision making.

But before that you need to master web scraping and I am pretty sure if you are starting with web scraping then you are doing it with python. It is a great library with a huge community support. It offers so many libraries that one might get confused to start with.

These are the most useful libraries in python for web scraping:
Requests
Scrapy
BeautifulSoup
Mechanical Soup
LXML
XPATH
Regular Expression
Selenium
Socket
Urllib3

You have to master one library which can make HTTP request and other one which can extract target data out of the raw data. I started with Requests and BS4. These libraries are pretty flexible and you can scrape data in no time with them. You just need to select a website for learning purpose and with a small effort you can learn web scraping with python.