Scraping Data From a Real Website
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Objective:
Create a web scraper to extract structured data from a real website for analysis.
The goal is to extract the detailed table of population statistics by country, on the following website: ​
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/​​​​
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Tools Used:
Python, Beautiful Soup, Requests, Pandas
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Process:
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Utilized the requests library to send requests to the target website.
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Parsed HTML content using Beautiful Soup to navigate and extract desired data.
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Identified patterns in the website’s HTML structure to accurately locate data points.
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Cleaned and structured the extracted data using Pandas for further analysis.
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Result:
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Successfully extracted and structured the data into a CSV file for further use:
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