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write a Scraper object in Python.It can scrape anything. It should have a .scrape method and a .data attribute.

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Web scraping is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. This technique mostly focuses on the transformation of unstructured data (HTML format) on the web into structured data (database or spreadsheet).

You can perform web scrapping in various ways, including use of Google Docs to almost every programming language. I would resort to Python because of its ease and rich eocsystem. It has a library known as ‘BeautifulSoup’ which assists this task. In this article, I’ll show you the easiest way to learn web scraping using python programming.

After a quick analysis, we see that in our page the data is contained in two elements - one is a div with title ‘buyer-name’ and the other is a span with class ‘item-price’:

Knowing this we can create the correct XPath query and use the lxml xpath function like this:

Let’s see what we got exactly: