Start Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Renee LIN
3 min readJun 29, 2022

As I use YouTube, and Reddit every day, I wonder how I can gather information about some topic automatically. For example, if I search “FFXIV” on YouTube, there will be a long list of videos, is there a way to collect the title, views, and channel info to excel files automatically? The solution is web scrapping, collecting data from a webpage automatically.

  1. What is Beautiful Soup

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Renee LIN

Passionate about web dev and data analysis. Huge FFXIV fan. Interested in healthcare data now.