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Example of parsing a table using BeautifulSoup and requests in Python
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| import requests | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| # We've now imported the two packages that will do the heavy lifting | |
| # for us, reqeusts and BeautifulSoup | |
| # Let's put the URL of the page we want to scrape in a variable | |
| # so that our code down below can be a little cleaner | |
| url_to_scrape = 'http://apps2.polkcountyiowa.gov/inmatesontheweb/' |