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Python Web Scraping: A Beginner’s Guide to Scraping Job Listings

Mori
5 min readJul 6, 2023

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Are you tired of manually scrolling through endless job postings to find the perfect opportunity? Look no further! In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of scraping job listings from JobInventory.com using Python.

First, we’ll use the requests library to send a GET request to the website and retrieve the HTML content. Then, we’ll use BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML and extract the relevant job listing information, such as the job title, company name, and job description.

Next, we’ll explore how to use Python’s regular expressions module to clean up the extracted data and prepare it for further analysis. We’ll also cover how to store the data in a CSV file for future use.

But wait, there’s more! We’ll also dive into advanced scraping techniques, such as handling pagination and dynamically loaded content. And, as a bonus, we’ll show you how to use Python’s natural language processing libraries to extract keywords and analyze job descriptions.

So, grab a cup of coffee and get ready to dive into the world of web scraping with Python. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have the skills to scrape job listings on JobInventory.com and beyond!

The implementation is available on GitHub:

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Mori
Mori

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Date Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer | Passionate about solving real-world problems | PhD in Computer Science

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