Facebook Messenger Bot Tutorial

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Learn how to create a Facebook messenger bot using Python in this video tutorial series.

GET and POST requests using Python

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This post discusses two HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request methods GET and POST requests in Python and their implementation in python.Read More »

Downloading files from web using Python

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Requests is a versatile HTTP library in python with various applications. One of its applications is to download a file from web using the file URL.
Installation: First of all, you would need to download the requests library. You can directly install it using pip by typing following command:Read More »

Implementing Web Scraping in Python with Beautiful Soup

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There are mainly two ways to extract data from a website:

Use the API of the website (if it exists). For example, facebook has the Facebook Graph API which allows retrieval of data posted on facebook.
Access the HTML of the webpage and extract useful information/data from it. This technique is called web scraping or web harvesting or web data extraction.

This article discusses the steps involved in web scraping using Python.Read More »