what is bs4 package and what is beautifulsoup
Bs4 and beautifulsoup
and also what is parsing?
hey @Naman_Mehra ,
bs4 is the package name which provides you with various classes to perform your scrapping task.
BeautifulSoup is one of such present in bs4 , which contains various functions , which can be inturn used to extract information from the raw text more easily.
Parsing is like a kind of decoding. When we scrap data , there are some special characters which were treated by website code for some work , but for us they are for no use. For example , this is an html tag which is necessary in writing html codes. But for us a data scientist , we don’t need. Hence , to not be read a word instead of a tag we use different kind of encoding , which parse this data in such a way that it becomes easier for us to extract the useful information from it.
I hope this would helped you.
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