Python for noob

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by pynerds • 10 years ago

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I want to learn Python for web scraping and some basic website. I am 28 years old. I don't know any programming language. What resources would you suggest?

hgarg• 10 years ago

Start with this - learnpythonthehardway.org You can read and follow along the book online for free.

thalesfc2• 10 years ago

Use selenium.py, it is by far the easiest and scalable solution out there. (believe me I have tried everything, beautiful soup, request.py, scrapy.py ... )

pynerds• 10 years ago

Any tutorial to learn selenium.py

thalesfc2• 10 years ago

tutorials

http://thiagomarzagao.com/2013/11/17/webscraping-with-seleni...

videoblog

https://github.com/kjam/python-web-scraping-tutorial/blob/ma...

The first link is a straight following link, and the second one is a 30mimn video that goes through all available Python crawlers.

My recommendation: follow the first one if you are sure to use selenium or watch the second link to check all possibilities.

dec0dedab0de• 10 years ago

It's a bit dated at this point, but I still recommend the google python class as a starting point. https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

Python for noob

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