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Downloading Images from a Website with PHP and DOM

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 15, 2023

Learn how to use PHP and the DOM extension to download images from a Wikipedia page and extract data from HTML tables. Use Proxies API for scraping at scale.

Parsing HTML Tables with BeautifulSoup

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 6, 2023

BeautifulSoup is a useful library for extracting data from HTML tables in Python. With a few simple lines of code, you can parse an HTML table and convert it into a pandas DataFrame for further analysis.

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