Hey noob, welcome to the club!
For how to webscrape in python, BeautifulSoup + requests is perfect for starters.
To avoid bans:
- Don’t scrape too fast (use `time.sleep`).
- Change your user-agent.
- Some sites block Python’s default user-agent, so fake it.
Scrapy’s overkill unless you’re doing big projects.
Here’s a mini example:
```python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://books.toscrape.com"
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
titles = soup.find_all('h3')
for title in titles:
print(title.text)
```
For how to webscrape in python, BeautifulSoup + requests is perfect for starters.
To avoid bans:
- Don’t scrape too fast (use `time.sleep`).
- Change your user-agent.
- Some sites block Python’s default user-agent, so fake it.
Scrapy’s overkill unless you’re doing big projects.
Here’s a mini example:
```python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://books.toscrape.com"
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
titles = soup.find_all('h3')
for title in titles:
print(title.text)
```
