DAYANANDA SAGAR UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Course Title : Natural Language Processing
Seminar Title : Automating Web Data Collection
with Python
Pavana R
ENG21CS0292
D - SEC
Introduction
Web Data Collection
Web data collection involves gathering data from online
sources automatically instead of manually copying it .
The process of extracting data from websites to analyze,
store, or use in applications.
Why Automate Web Data Collection?
• Saves time and effort.
• Handles large-scale data efficiently.
• Reduces errors and ensures consistency.
• Enables real-time updates.
• Cost-effective and scalable.
• Simplifies complex tasks like dynamic content handling.
Tools and Libraries
Requests: For fetching web pages.
BeautifulSoup : Parse HTML to locate and extract data
Selenium:For interacting with dynamic websites.
Scrapy : For large-scale scraping projects.
Web Scraping Workflow
1. Identify the target website.
2. Send a Request.
3. Parse the Data.
4. Store the Data.
Example Code
Ethical Considerations
• Avoid Overloading Servers
• Data Privacy
• Copyright and Legal Compliance
• Data Ownership
Applications
Data Analysis: Track trends, analyze feedback.
Machine Learning: Collect training data.
Research: Gather online data for academic or market
studies.
