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RE: Scraping the Web With Python
Hey @rabm, for scraping general webpages, BS is certainly a good candidate. For things like Steem/Busy-related content, there are python libraries to directly access the Blockchain: checkout beem, lightsteem or steem-python! No need to parse HTML with those :)
Thanks, didn't know about Steem specific libraries, good data! But my idea behind this was just to share a simple how to do web scraping to extract data (for data science, or any other data), and I used the post as an example on how to extract the images. But again, good comment. Thanks!.
Yes, for general web scraping, your approach is of course correct. You've used a busy-post as an example, so I wasn't sure in which direction this will be going :)