Python Selenium Tutorial #1 - Web Scraping

In this very first part, we will show you the basics of web scraping. We will show you how to install Python, Selenium and Chrome Driver. After that, we will write a short Python script to open a Chrome browser and launch Morningstar webpage in incognito mode.

This is a jam pack part, you will love it.

This Selenium tutorial for beginners module has been structure with easy to follow steps. We will introduce you to the world of web scraping with Python Using Selenium. The core scripting language (Python) has also been structure as a Python for beginners.

Web scraping is a very neat and at times very powerful technique to acquire data from another website, and data is knowledge and "power".
This tutorial, we will show you how to perform web scraping using Selenium and Python, and after which parse (or output) the data into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for further manipulations.
We will show you how to install Python and Selenium, basic background on different libraries, illustrate typical gotchas in web scrapping and how to output the scrapped data into an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

We hope that Python Selenium Tutorial will be handy for your new web scraping projects.

I am using Morningstar webpage to show you how to perform web scraping.

Source Code For Python:
http://www.xybernetics.com/techtalk/Python-WebScrappingUsingSeleniumMorningStar/code/scrapper.zip

Xybernetics Article:
http://xybernetics.com/techtalk/techtalk-python-web-scrapping-using-selenium/

Python:
https://www.python.org/downloads/

Sublime:
https://www.sublimetext.com

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