Build a Web Scraper (LIVE) - Siraj Raval

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In this video, we'll build a Python web scraper that retrieves the top 20 most frequent words with their percentages in an English Wikipedia article. Code for this video is here: https://github.com/llSourcell/web_scraper_live_demo Check out my friend Zoe Hong's Youtube channel for some cool fashion and illustration educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMQ_mPIBPi4IMpYEmuyOMqQ Please subscribe, comment, and like! That's what keeps me going. 2 more web scraping tutorials that are pretty good: http://web.stanford.edu/~zlotnick/TextAsData/Web_Scraping_with_Beautiful_Soup.html https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/easy-web-scraping-with-python Let me know of what types of things you'd like me to code in the future for live sessions, always open to suggestions. And please support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3191693 Follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sirajraval Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sirajology Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirajraval/

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In this video, we'll build a Python web scraper that retrieves the top 20 most frequent words with their percentages in an English Wikipedia article. Code for this video is here: https://github.com/llSourcell/web_scraper_live_demo Check out my...

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