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Python - Data collection from a website.

Hello everyone, I'm new to Python and this app. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to have Python: 1) take a set Google search term 2) go into each result website 3) copy and paste certain information, such as: email addresses, phone numbers, and other such information 4. Paste the result in a document (preferable Excel) Does anyone know if this is possible with Python, and if so, what topics I need to study to create a code for this? Thank you, Adrian

27th Jan 2018, 2:55 AM
Adrian Tippit
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It's possible. You're searching for "web scraping". Python has a webbrowser module with which you can access websites, read their source codes, download text and even files. You can parse the soure code with the BeautifulSoup module. I don't know if you can paste anything into Excel files though.
27th Jan 2018, 3:04 AM
Chris
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Thank you very much Chris! I'll start looking into this. I'm still new to Python and downloaded it with Anaconda. Will I need to download anything to use the BeautifulSoup module or just "import BeautifulSoup"? Thank you so much again!
27th Jan 2018, 3:21 AM
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