- Nov 27, 2005
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First off, I'm a huge noob. I know next to nothing about programming, but I'm determined to learn. I want to create a website as a hobby(I've made crap ones in the past) so I want to learn how everything works as opposed to paying someone to set me up with something I can't understand.
Right now I'm trying to learn web scraping. I'd like to be able to grab data(movie times/listings, to be precise) and manipulate them onto a webpage however I like(and I'd like users to be able to manipulate them further, through whatever options I set up).
After a bit of research I've been trying to learn how to pull the data with Python and/or BeautifulSoup. Needless to say I'm having trouble getting going, but I only started trying yesterday. My main question, though, is whether or not I should keep on this path to reach my end goal. Am I better off using another technique? I don't want to waste time learning this if there's a better way, or if there are any dead ends I'll hit later. I've come across a few other ways people do this kind of stuff, but I know little about any of them. Can they all be used with equal ease to build the pulled data into a webpage?
Thanks in advance, and apologies for my ignorance
Right now I'm trying to learn web scraping. I'd like to be able to grab data(movie times/listings, to be precise) and manipulate them onto a webpage however I like(and I'd like users to be able to manipulate them further, through whatever options I set up).
After a bit of research I've been trying to learn how to pull the data with Python and/or BeautifulSoup. Needless to say I'm having trouble getting going, but I only started trying yesterday. My main question, though, is whether or not I should keep on this path to reach my end goal. Am I better off using another technique? I don't want to waste time learning this if there's a better way, or if there are any dead ends I'll hit later. I've come across a few other ways people do this kind of stuff, but I know little about any of them. Can they all be used with equal ease to build the pulled data into a webpage?
Thanks in advance, and apologies for my ignorance
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