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Where to Find Students Worksheets — A Practical Introduction to Python Web Scraping
As a working parent who is also homeschooling kids at home during the pandemic time, one critical task for me is how to keep kids busy and where to find the worksheets so that they could still study while at home.
Thankfully, I have some friends who have extensive experience and introduced me to a great math worksheets website: beestar. Why is it great? Because they offer FREE math sheets for students at different grades, which is exactly what I am looking for right now.
Just like every sad story has a silver lining, good thing always has some small problem — the sheet is stored at different website and I have to click the page one by one to download the worksheet and it is certainly not lazy-friendly.
After a few clicks, I give up and ask for help. This time I am looking at Python Beautiful Soup and Requests for the web scraping!
Prepare for Web Scarping
To win a war, not only you have to know yourself but your enemy as well, let’s INSPECT the webpage first:
- right click the webpage and select Inspect
