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How to Use Web Scraping with Selenium and BeautifulSoup for Dynamic Pages?

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  Web scraping could be well-defined as: “The creation of an agent for downloading, parsing, as well as organizing data from the web in an automated manner.” In other words: rather than a human end-user clicking away in the web browser as well as copy-paste interesting parts like a spreadsheet, web data scraping offloads the job to any computer program that can implement it much quicker, and more properly, than any human can. Web scraping is very important in the data science arena. Why is Python an appropriate Language to Get Used for Web Scraping? This has the most extravagant and helpful ecosystem when comes to doing web scraping. While several languages have the libraries to assist in using web scraping, Python’s libraries come with the most advanced features and tools. A few Python libraries used for web scraping include: BeautifulSoup LXML Requests Scrapy Selenium In this blog, we will use Selenium and BeautifulSoup to extract review pages from Trip Advisor. Why Use Selenium Also