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Introduction to Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 6, 2023

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites through an automated procedure. Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed specifically for web scraping purposes. It provides parsing and navigation tools for extracting data from HTML and XML documents.

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