Selenium is a great tool of web scraping, but has some flaws which is normal because it was designed primarily for testing online applications. However, BeautifulSoup was created particularly for web scraping and is also an excellent tool. But even BeautifulSoup has its own flaws as when data to be scraped is behind the wall and it requires user authentication or some other actions from user. This is where Selenium may be used to automate user interactions with the website, and Beautiful Soup will be used to scrape the data once we are in the wall. When BeautifulSoup and Selenium are combined, you get a perfect web scraping tool. Selenium can also scrape data but BeautifulSoup is far better. We will use BeautifulSoup and Selenium to scrape movie details from Amazon Prime Video in several categories, such as description, name, and ratings, and then filter the movies depending on the IMDB ratings. Let’s discuss the process of scraping Amazon Prime data. Firstly, import ...
Web Scraping allows us to Scrape information from web pages. In this blog, you'll learn how to perform web data scraping with Python