Overview

Learn about the features of Beautiful Soup with Python

Extract information from Google's home page

Understand how to use a simple method to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module

Master searching, navigation, content modification, encoding, and output methods quickly and efficiently

Try out the example code and get to grips with Beautiful Soup easily

Vineeth G. Nair

Vineeth G. Nair completed his bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala. He is currently working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Applications Engineer.

He developed an interest in Python during his college days and began working as a freelance programmer. This led him to work on several web scraping projects using Beautiful Soup. It helped him gain a fair level of mastery on the technology and a good reputation in the freelance arena. He can be reached at vineethgnair.mec@gmail.com. You can visit his website at www.kochi-coders.com.