Web Scraping! It's one of the main reasons we all love and hate to code.

BeautifulSoup4 (BS4) thankfully makes it a bit easier for us Pythonistas.

Over the following couple of days you're going to learn how to use BS4 to work with website data pulled down using the Requests module.

A few videos to watch today: Setting up the environment, A quick BS4 overview and Building your first BS4 scraper.

Watch them all through to completion before giving the scraping a crack yourself - it'll help to see it start to finish first.

Once done, pull your first site! Use the example site in the video or challenge yourself to try another.

Open today with a quick video on Requests best practice for using Requests to pull website data. Watch it.

Then spend some time watching Detailed BS4 scraping and searching. This video will detail some ways to drill down through the mass of data pulled with requests to find the data you want and need.

It can be a bit tricky so don't get frustrated if you can't get to the data you're after. It might take some tweaking!

You've got the basics down to scrape a website so do it! Pull down a site and scrape it with BS4.

If you have this mastered and have extra time, see what else you can do with the data. Try storing it in a DB or displaying it in something like a Flask app or GUI. Even automate emailing it to yourself if it's useful!

Alternatively, look around for a site that looks more complex than a standard/simple site. Pinpoint a data sample on the page and see if you can extract it.

Be sure to share your last couple of days work on Twitter or Facebook. Use the hashtag #100DaysOfCode.

Here are some examples to inspire you. Consider including @talkpython and @pybites in your tweets.

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