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Web Scraping Using Python (Part 1)

 Introduction: This is my first trial into web scraping. I hope you find it useful and if you have any tips or suggestions, please leave them in the comments below. I will be showing you how to scrape data from e-commerce websites (taking ebay as an example here). Disclaimer: Please note that it is not preferred to overload any website with too many get requests to scrape information, as this can affect their servers and they can ban your IP for this, so do this at your own responsibility. Exploring the website: I will start by doing some exploration of the website itself a bit then I will be using python to get the data we need. Before we start let's see what type of data ebay has to offer. After some exploration into ebay I decided to take a dive into Electronics ( Cell Phones & Smart Phone Parts ). By looking at the first item we have here a few things already stand out. For example we could want to get: It's title The price of the ite...