I'm learning a bit of web scraping with Python, how, why and when to use regex and or bs4 to parse html pages

Question

web scraping with Python

Answer 1

BeautifulSoup4 or bs4 allows you to strip and decompose the website to its building elements, so it deals with the HTML from the structure side - if at any point you need to deal with, let's say, the sixth hyperlink in the second row, third column of the table preceeded with two <div> tags.

RegEx or re allows you to parse text itself, looking for character-specific matches inside it. So it finds even the most complex character combinations in the HTML file, kind of treating it like a text file.

For most parsing tasks you probably need both :)

Answer 2

@Sayan I'd rather treat it as a nice way to behave ;)

Answer 3

No problem. Would you mind marking my answer as best in this case? :) It actually helps keeping my xp on the rise ;)

Answer 4

thanks you Kuba..your answer have been helpful
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/811313/?ref=app

Answer 5

😂😂😂@ kuba...
that was hell of a cute demand

Answer 6

😁😁😁 ok man i did