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Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. -- wiki

What you need?

• A Gmail Account.

• Cloud9 account.

• Love for Python.

• Internet Obviously. :)

• Doubts, questions, drop them here.

What you will learn?

• Installing Scrapy and anything that we need.

• What is scraping?

• Why Scrape at all?

• What all you can scrape?

• How to write a scraper?

• Why Scrapy is awesome?

• Why Scrapy is not that awesome?

• What is xpath? Why they are so useful in scraping?

• What all you have in Python World to Scrape?

You are a beginner in Python?

Yes?

Please join in. :)

No?

I promise you will learn something new and interesting. :)

Here's the link to the Google Hangout on Air https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c910brmmdui5vbhjns75sj9v48k. Tapasweni will be using this help chat https://tlk.io/pyladiesremote to answer your questions. Both links won't be active until about a half an hour before the class starts.