README.md

Intro to webscraping with python

1. Make sure Python is installed on your system.
2. Create folder web-scraping-with-python
3. Open with favorite text editor
4. Create main.py file
5. Create first Hello World program by adding the following code to the file.

   print("Hello World!")

   Run program in terminal

   python main.py    
   

6. Install Beautiful Soup and requests.

   pip install beautifulsoup4 requests
   

Installing on Mac

In a Python 3 environment on a Mac, you may run into errors when trying to import beautifulsoup4 and requests. Try this in your shell:

# from (my-env) *[main][/usr/local/projects/python/web-scraping-with-python]$
python3 -m venv my-env
source my-env/bin/activate
pip install beautifulsoup4 requests
python3 main.py