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Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup)

Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap

In short

Parsing HTML to extract structured data from websites that don't offer an API — a common way to build custom datasets for niche AI projects.

How to learn this

  1. 1Parse a static HTML page with BeautifulSoup and extract specific elements.
  2. 2Learn to use browser dev tools to identify the right selectors.
  3. 3Understand the legal and ethical boundaries of scraping before doing it at scale.

More topics at this stop

SQL Basics (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)Working with Databases in PythonData Pipelines (Concept)ETL vs ELTBatch vs Streaming DataData Warehouses (Concept)Airflow Basics (Overview)Working with APIs for Data Collection

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